Les marquages corporels chez les communautés néolithiques et énéolithiques Carpato Danubiennes (I)

Abstract

In this paper, the author discusses those anthropomorphic statuettes and vases of Neolithic from Carpatho-Balkan and Danubian area, which showing components of bodily marks (tattoos, piercing, scarification’s etc.) practiced by proto-historical communities. These bodily marks had probably an important role in the socialization of individual, within the micro and macro social group, to highlight the identities of gender, age, status, ethnicity, religion etc., in the complex societies.

Keywords

• body (bodily) marks
• tattoo
• piercing
• scarification
• identity