69684 KB38 KB580 KB0 KB199820262025Becker, ValeskaBristow, RebeccaIversen, Runeštevilka:letn. 52str. 70-81DOI:10.4312/dp.52.14ISSN:1854-2492COBISSID_HOST:272595459URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-C04U99GMenZaložba Univerze v LjubljaniDocumenta PraehistoricaBalkanBalkansCentral Europecentralna Evropafigurative representationsfigurativne upodobitvefigurinefigurinesNeolithicneolitikCounting and comparing| figurative representation density in Neolithic Central Europe and the Balkans| Štetje in primerjanje| pogostost figurativnega upodabljanjav neolitiku Srednje Evrope in Balkana|As Neolithic figurative finds – that is to say anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines, vessels, applications and impressions – were uncovered in Europe and the Near East, it was quickly ap­parent that they all shared common features over several millennia and thousands of kilometres: they were made of clay, usually depicted women, and were found in settlements. This led to cross­cultural comparisons and, in turn, wide­ranging interpretations regarding the use of figurative representations during the Neolithic. However, this cross­cultural approach eventually met its limits, as regional studies highlighted differences in features and distribution among various cultural groups. Figurative finds were, in fact, not spread evenly across Europe. While some areas yielded multitudes, others yielded none.This article addresses the challenges of making cross­cultural comparisons, and underlines the need for a quantitative and contextualized approach: introducing a new relational database containing more than 2500 figurative representations from Central Europe and the Balkans, we compare find densities across cultural groups and regional clusters in order to examine the development of clay figuration in Neolithic EuropeKo so bile v Evropi in na Bližnjem vzhodu odkrite neolitske figurativne najdbe – torej antro­pomorfne in zoomorfne figurice, posode, aplike in odtisi – je hitro postalo jasno, da ohranjajo skup ne značilnosti skozi več tisočletij in na tisoče kilometrov daleč: izdelane so bile iz gline, običajno so pri­kazovale ženske in so bile najdene v naseljih. To je vodilo do medkulturnih primerjav in posledično do različnih pojasnitev uporabe figurativnih upodobitev v neolitiku. Pristop pa je sčasoma dosegel svoje meje, saj so regionalne študije pokazale razlike v značilnostih in razširjenosti med posameznimi kul­turnimi skupinami. Figurativne najdbe namreč niso bile enakomerno razporejene po Evropi – nekatere regije so prinesle številne primerke, druge pa nobenega. V članku se ukvarjamo z izzivom medkul­turnih primerjav in poudarjamo potrebo po kvantitativnem in kontekstualiziranem pristopu. Z uva­janjem nove relacijske baze podatkov, ki vsebuje več kot 2500 figurativnih upodobitev iz Srednje Ev­rope in Balkana, primerjamo pogostost najdb med kulturnimi skupinami in regionalnimi skupinami, da bi lahko preučili razvoj glinene figuralike v neolitski EvropiTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta