Reflections on sacred head hair in the prehistory of Malta

Simon Stoddart; Caroline Malone

doi:10.2307/j.ctv1q26t57.13

Reflections on sacred head hair in the prehistory of Malta

Simon Stoddart, Caroline Malone

School of Natural and Built Environment

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In one of Horace’s famous odes, the poet thus reflects on the role of hair in the course of life. With an introductory reference to Professor Bonanno’s important work on classical sculpture, we reflect on how hair styles on prehistoric representations of the human form can be employed to interpret the members of society that constructed the prehistoric temples. Our initial questions were: Do these hair styles represent different stages in the life course? Or are they indicative of a timeless ancestral image or of a sacred state? Are they a crucial element of dress of specialists of ritual reproduction?...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The lure of the antique: essays on Malta and Mediterranean archaeology in honour of Anthony Bonanno
Editors	Nicholas C. Vella, Anthony J. Frendo, Horatio C. R. Vella
Place of Publication	Leuven
Publisher	Peeters Publishers
Pages	131-142
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9789042936171
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1q26t57.13
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2018

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Name	Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement
Volume	54

Keywords

Archaeology
Classical studies
Malta

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World Archaeology (Journal)
Malone, C. (Peer reviewer), Stoddart, S. (Peer reviewer) & Barratt, R. (Peer reviewer)
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Presses Universitaires de Louvain (Publisher)
Malone, C. (Associate editor), McLaughlin, T. (Associate editor), Mercieca Spiteri, B. (Associate editor), Parkinson, E. (Associate editor), Power, R. (Associate editor), Stock, J. (Associate editor), Stoddart, S. (Editor-in-chief) & Thompson, J. (Associate editor)
2018 → …
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2 Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Hypogea and the clubhouse: Neolithic Malta's houses of the living and the dead.
Malone, C., McLaughlin, R., Barratt, R. & Parkinson, E. W., 2019, Houses of the dead?: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar papers 17. Barclay, A., Field, D. & Leary, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow, Vol. 17. p. 15-37 23 p. (Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers).
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Figurines of Malta
Malone, C. & Stoddart, S., 20 Apr 2017, The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines . Insoll, T. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 729-754 26 p. 32
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Stoddart, S., & Malone, C. (2018). Reflections on sacred head hair in the prehistory of Malta. In N. C. Vella, A. J. Frendo, & H. C. R. Vella (Eds.), The lure of the antique: essays on Malta and Mediterranean archaeology in honour of Anthony Bonanno (pp. 131-142). (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement; Vol. 54). Peeters Publishers. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1q26t57.13

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The lure of the antique: essays on Malta and Mediterranean archaeology in honour of Anthony Bonanno. ed. / Nicholas C. Vella; Anthony J. Frendo; Horatio C. R. Vella. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2018. p. 131-142 (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement; Vol. 54).

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Reflections on sacred head hair in the prehistory of Malta

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World Archaeology (Journal)

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Hypogea and the clubhouse: Neolithic Malta's houses of the living and the dead.

Figurines of Malta

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