Talk:ʿAin Ghazal statues

Elaborate: why "statues", why "monumental", why only anthropomorphic ones?

 * "Ain Ghazal Statues"?
 * "Monumental statues"?

Please define & elaborate. See D. Schmandt-Besserat (2013), she uses these terms. Elsewhere: figurines or figures, seldom even statues. They're "just" 35-100 cm tall. How are they monumental?


 * Why are the animal statuettes left out? Arminden (talk) 23:42, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Plastered skulls must be included in the article
The Feldman quote from the footnotes is the only place where they are mentioned: "They...represent...ancestors...based on the similar treatment of the heads of these statues and the disarticulated and buried plastered skulls." Meant are plastered human skulls - real human skulls, with the soft tissue "reconstructed" with plaster and eyes made of shells sometimes placed inside the eye sockets. They must be mentioned inside the article proper, the two topics closely belong together. Arminden (talk) 21:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)