INDEX

Abydos (Egypt), 45–47

Afghanistan, 60

Arabia, 60, 64, 96–98

Arnheim, Rudolph, 24–25, 28, 75

art: “animal style,” 9, 18; “international style,” 94–95; Neolithic, 37–43, 51; “orientalizing,” 12–15, 17, 28, 91–92, 115n14; Paleolithic, 33–37, 51, 118n14, 118n15; predynastic (Egyptian), 43–49, 121n47

Assur (Iraq), 99

Ataç, Mehmet-Ali, 105

autism, 118n15

Bactria-Margiana culture (Turkmenistan), 61, 64

Bagley, Robert, 85

Baxandall, Michael, 113n12

Benjamin, Walter, 1

Bevan, Andrew, 90

Breuil, Henri, 34–36

bronze vessels, 83–87

Bowersock, Glenn, 8

Boyer, Pascal, 22–23, 80

bureaucracy, 70–73, 89; “bureaucratic eye”, 71

Canetti, Elias, 117n35

canon, 2, 90

Çatalhöyük (Turkey), 42–43, 120n30

Caucasus, 11, 100

Cauvin, Jacques, 39

ceramics, 43, 45–47

Childe, V. Gordon, 12

China, 7, 9, 18, 83–87

classification, 5–6, 21–22

cognition, 3–7, 19–24, 82, 110–112

composite figuration, 24–28, 69–73

counterintuitive representations, 22–24, 50, 80, 102, 110

Crete, 61, 63–64, 75, 92

cuneiform script, 69–71

cyclops, 79

cylinder seals. See seals

Cyprus, 79

demons, 26, 56, 100–104

Descola, Philippe, 26, 116n25

diffusionism, 16

diplomacy, 95, 108

dragon, 5, 17

Ebla (Syria), 61

Egypt, 105–106, 131n41; Neolithic, 43–45; predynastic, 43–49; protodynastic, 51–59, 62, 92–94

Elsner, Jas, 12

“epidemiology of culture.” See cognition; evolutionary psychology

evolutionary psychology, 3, 20, 50, 88–89, 111, 115n4. See also cognition

farming (origins of), 39

Feldman, Marian, 95

Frankfort, Henri, 1, 12

Göbekli Tepe (Turkey), 40

gods, 25, 39, 121n16

Gombrich, Ernst, 82, 85

gorgoneion, 77–78, 103

Göttertypentext, 75

Greece: Bronze Age, 12–13, 61, 63–64, 78–79, 92; Iron Age, 9, 13, 17–18, 80, 90–91

griffin, 5, 17, 62–64, 124n42, 124n43, 129n12

Hallowell, A. Irving, 4

Hierakonpolis (Egypt), 45

Houma (China), 86

Humbaba, 77, 80

hunter-gatherers, 30–32, 34–40, 44, 110; Inuit, 30–31, 117n32; San, 31, 36

immunology, 107

Indus Valley, 60, 64, 98

“integrative mode,” 89, 94–99

“intercultural style.” See stone vessels

Iran, 18, 43, 61, 62, 64, 96–98, 108

Kerma (Sudan), 92

Kohl, Philip, 98

Konar Sandal (Iran), 98

Küchler, Susanne, 6

Kulturkreislehre, 16

kurgan, 15

Kwakiutl, 31

Lamashtu, 101–103

Ledderose, Lothar, 85–86

Leonardo da Vinci, 27

Lewis-Williams, David, 36

lion-man (Hohlenstein Stadel), 33–34, 36

magic, 56, 89, 100–104, 123n39, 131n41

mappa mundi, 109

masking, 31–32, 37, 42

mechanical reproduction, 1, 74, 80–83, 86–87, 88–89, 111

medieval Europe, 82, 108

Mesopotamia, 1, 16–17, 62; Bronze Age, 59–62, 98; Iron Age, 13, 99–106; Neolithic, 39–43; Uruk period, 65–73

metals, 11, 60, 62, 105

Mithen, Stephen, 4, 36, 118n15

modularity, 6–7; mental, 20–23; technological, 55–59, 68–73, 110

mold casting, 80, 83–87, 100–103

monsters, 24–26, 109, 113n3, 116n22

Napier, David, 30, 103, 106–107

Nineveh (Iraq), 99

Nubia, 60

orientalizing. See art

Osborne, Robin, 90

Pazyryk (Siberia), 28

Persian Gulf, 60, 64, 96, 98

Phoenicia, 13, 105, 129n9

Porada, Edith, 103

pottery. See ceramics

Poulsen, Fredrik, 13

print media, 1, 81, 109

“protective mode,” 89, 99–106

Proto-Elamite culture (Iran), 64–65

Qazwini, al-, 109

Riegl, Alois, 12–13

rock art, 4, 34–37, 118n14, 119n17

Rostovtzeff, Mikhail, 7–19, 50, 60, 83

Schmidt, Klaus, 40

Scott, James C., 110

Scythians, 9–11, 18

seals, 1, 62, 65–73, 80–81

shamanism, 31–32, 37, 117n3, 119n18, 119n20

Sperber, Dan, 20–23

sphinx, 17, 63–64, 124n42

Stafford, Barbara, 3, 19–20, 23–24, 71

state formation, 2, 51, 54, 81, 88, 90–94

stone vessels, 95–99

Syria, 60, 64–65, 105

taotie, 84–86, 128n37

Taweret, 63–64, 92, 123n39, 123n40, 129n11

Tepe Yahya (Iran), 98

textiles, 67, 123n39, 124n42

Tiryns (Greece), 77–79

Tomasello, Michael, 111–112

trade, 2, 8–12, 54, 60–62, 89–94

“transformative mode,” 89–94

tupilak, 30–31, 117n32

Turkey, 40–43, 69

urbanization, 2, 59–62, 64–73, 88, 94–95

Vapheio cups, 12–13

Weeks, Kent, 54

Whitley, James, 90–91

Wiggermann, Frans, 99

Wittkower, Rudolph, 108–109

Yangshao culture (China), 83

“Zakros Master,” 75–76