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The Berekhat Ram figurine: a late Acheulian carving from the Middle East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alexander Marshack
Alexander Marshack*
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4 Washington Square Village, New York NY 10012-1908, USA. E-mail: marshack@fas.harvard.edu
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The human capacity for recognizing categorical forms and their defining characterstics extends to a recognition of natural forms and shapes that may suggest these categories. The issue is raised below by the analysis of an archaic figure from the Levant in which a natural form was apparently intentionally modified to produce an enhanced human image.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 272 , June 1997 , pp. 327 - 337
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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