Table of Contents

Part 1. Introduction
1: Miniature Possibilities: An Introduction to the Varied Dimensions of Figurine Research
2: Lynn Meskell: The Archaeology of Figurines and the Human Body in Prehistory
3: Richard G. Lesure: Comparative Perspectives in the Interpretation of Prehistoric Figurines
Part 2. Africa
4: Alice Stevenson: Predynastic Egyptian Figurines
5: Gunnar Haaland and Randi Haaland: Prehistoric Figurines in Sudan
6: Barbara E. Barich: The Sahara
7: Alex Schoeman: Southern Africa
8: Timothy Insoll: West Africa
9: Pierre de Maret: Equatorial Africa
Part 3. The Americas
10: Andrzej Antczak and Magdalena Antczak: Caribbean
11: Erin L. Sears: Mesoamerica - Maya
12: Christopher A. Pool: Mesoamerica - Olmec
13: Jeffrey P. Blomster: Mesoamerica - Highland Formative (Early to Middle Formative) Figurines
14: Lisa Overholtzer: Aztec Figurines
15: Polly Schaafsma: North America - Southwest
16: Roy L. Carlson: Figurines and Figural Art of the Northwest Coast
17: William W. Fitzhugh and Bernadette Driscoll Engelstad: Inuguat: Prehistoric Human Figurines in the North American Arctic
18: George F. Lau: South America - Andes
19: Cristiana Barreto: Figurine Traditions from the Amazon
Part 4. Asia
20: Ellen Belcher and Karina Croucher: Anatolia
21: Sascha Priewe: Prehistoric Figurines in China: The Deep History of Figurative Imagery in China
22: Sharri R. Clark and J. Mark Kenoyer: South Asia - Indus Civilization
23: Koji Mizoguchi: Anthropomorphic Clay Figurines of the Jomon Period of Japan
24: Ian Kuijt: Clay Ideas: Levantine Neolithic Figurine Trajectories and Intellectual Threads
25: Stuart Campbell and Aurelie Daems: Figurines in Prehistoric Mesopotamia
26: Aurelie Daems: From a Bird's Eye View: Prehistoric Human Figurines from Iran
Part 5. Australasia and the Pacific
27: Catherine Orliac and Michel Orliac: Wooden Figurines of Easter Island
Part 6. Europe
28: Colin Renfrew: Cycladic Figurines
29: Christine Morris: Minoan and Mycenaean Figurines
30: Rebecca Farbstein: Palaeolithic Central and Eastern Europe
31: Eszter Bánffy: Neolithic Eastern and Central Europe
32: Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart: Figurines of Malta
33: Daisy Knox: Mediterranean - Cyprus
34: Robin Skeates: Prehistoric Figurines in Italy
35: Isabelle Vella Gregory: Mediterranean - Sardinia
36: Doug Bailey: Southeast European Neolithic Figurines: Beyond Context, Interpretation, and Meaning
37: Paul Pettitt: Palaeolithic Western and North Central Europe
38: Chris Scarre: Neolithic Figurines of Western Europe

About the Author

Timothy Insoll is Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge, he was a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge from 1995 until 1998, when he was appointed Lecturer at the University of Manchester. After becoming a Reader in 2004 and being awarded a personal chair in 2005 he moved to the University of Exeter in 2016.
He is the author or editor of 16 books, three special journal issues, and numerous articles and reviews on a wide range of research topics across the discipline of archaeology, and has completed
fieldwork in Mali, Ghana, western India, Bahrain, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda.