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2021
- handle: 10670/1.ock8uj
- halshs: halshs-03085834
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petroglyph bull leaping bull hunt central asiaSujets proches
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H.-P. Francfort, « “Playing with the Bull” in the arts of Ancient Eurasia », HAL-SHS : archéologie, ID : 10670/1.ock8uj
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The paper studies the artistic representations of humans playing with bulls in Eurasia.It considers Neolithic representations of Chatal-Höyük, as well as Bronze Age Levant, Middle East,Indus (seals), and Central Asia (seal, petroglyphs). The proposed interpretation is related to playsand games with bulls, bull-leaping, tauromachy considered as mock hunts, rather as sports, possiblyritual. Representations occurring inside constructed cultural spaces are especially important ina time of domestications of wild species of bovids. It is suggested that this change is connectedwith sedentism, with the appearance of narration, and with symbolism in art.