| Chapter 2: | Female Figures in Eurasian Neolithic Iconography |
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in Northern Eurasia (where they are accepted to be shamanistic figures), and these may be precursors to and contemporaries of the figures we describe in this book.4
Among the Balkan prehistoric figures (those of Greece, Bulgaria, and Romania), in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, there are several dancing figures (however, one cannot see indication of gender) depicted on pots and potsherds displayed in the Stara Zagora Museum, dating to the early Neolithic. On two potsherds, one arm is raised and the other is lowered. In some examples, the legs
Figure 3. Dancing figure. Scânteia, Romania. C-M Lazarovici, excavator. Cucuteni A-3 (4300–4050 BCE). From Mantu (Lazarovici) 1992. Courtesy of Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici.
