Session 16: Vital Signs in Antiquity I

Freedberg, David. 1989. The god in the image. In The Power of Images, pp. 27-40.

Freedberg, David. 1989. Consecration: making images work. In The Power of Images, pp. 82-98.

Comments to be posted by evening of October 22.

Sessions 12-13: Domesticated Images, Part II

Lewis-Williams, David and David Pearce. 2005. Inside the Neolithic Mind. Thames and Hudson, London.

Comments to be posted by evening of October 15.

Sessions 11-12: Domesticated Images, Part I

Boric, Dusan. 2005. Body metamorphosis and animality: volatile bodies and boulder artworks from Lepenski Vir. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 15:35-69.

Bradley, Richard. 2001. Human, animals and the domestication of visual images. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 11(2):261-3.

Watkins, Trevor. 2004. Architecture and 'theatres of memory' in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia. In Rethinking Materiality, edited by Elizabeth DeMarrais et al., pp. 97-106.

Whittle, Alasdair. 2000. 'Very like a whale': menhirs, motifs and myths in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Northwestern Europe. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 10(2):243-59.

Comments to be posted by evening of October 8.

Lepenski Vir

What do these images mean?

What do they do?

What do they want?

Göbekli Tepe (Turkey)

What do these images mean?

What do they do?

What do they want?

Sessions 9-10: Twilight of the Idols, Part II

Lewis-Williams, David. 2002. The Mind in the Cave. Thames and Hudson.

Comments to be posted by evening of Oct 1.