Interpretation of Human-Effigy Vessel in North and North East of Iran Plateau in Late Bronze Period

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Ebrahim AmirKolaei ¹ (Department of Archaeology, Islamic Azad University, Savadkuh Branch, Savadkuh, Iran.)
Mojtaba Safari ² (Department of Archaeology, Nima Institute, Mahmud Abad, Iran.)
Narjes Heydari ³ (Department of Archaeology, Nima Institute, Mahmud Abad, Iran.)
Arman Masoudi ⁴ (B.A. in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Nima Institute, Mahmud Abad, Iran.)

Received: 2023-07-09 Accepted : 2023-07-09 Published : 2012-08-22

Keywords: gender, effigy vessel, north and northeast, The Recent Bronze, interpretational archaeology, symptom,

Abstract :

Cultural materials are used meaningfully and their meaning can be changed or forgotten during the passage of time. One of the ultra- modern archaeological approaches is the perception of understanding and meaning of objects. Here “interpretation” has been suggested as an approach for the conception of concepts of objects. Interpretation is considered as a special type of explanation and for the sake of inclusion of a hermeneutic framework, it is beyond of cultural material. For discovering the concept of cultural materials, it needs to distinguish social conditions in its time context. Archaeologically, the perspective of north and northeast of Iran plateau contains culture and homogeneous culture in Recent Bronze Period. Effigy vessel is considered as one of the cultural materials which can be found in funerary floor in this period, and have been discovered from archaeological investigations. In fact, this cultural view can be considered as a context and existing effigy vessel to be considered as one of the most delicate symptoms in this context. In fact, this cultural perspective can be considered as a text and the container of existing figures can be interpreted as one of the subtlest signs of this text and by examining its social context, we can understand the gender and identity signs of this object.