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Figure 3.7 Images of dancing from the Neolithic Near East. A. Four examples of dance scenes
painted on pottery. B. Dancing figures that are clearly gendered female.
From Garfinkel, Y. (2003), The earliest dancing scenes in the Near East. Near Eastern Archaeology 66: 84–
95; and Garfinkel, Y. (2003), Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture. University of Texas Press, p. 50.