The Earliest Dancing Scenes in the Near East From: Near Eastern Archaeology | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: Garfinkel, Yosef | Copyright American Schools of Oriental Research Sep 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Dance is found in almost every society and has always been as much a form of social and religious expression as it is a creative one. Depictions of dancing figures, often misconstrued by archaeologists, are among the earliest representations of the human figure found in the ancient Near East and southeastern Europe. On various surfaces, particularly ceramic vessels, a proliferation of dancers appear over a vast geographical expanse from the eighth to the fourth millennia BCE.

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