Semne și simboluri geometrice pe obiectele de cult neolitice
Geometric signs and symbols on Neolithic cult objects

Summary/Abstract: In the archaic world, the symbol is both reality and sign that renders a structure of the world, representing a manifestation of the real. It is the result of man's capacity for abstraction in different stages of its evolution.Through this abstraction and valorization man has created an explanatory model of the world that reflects the essence of things and facts, transmitting them as message, in various forms. Signs and geometric symbols were from the beginning of the first forms of social organization the main tools of information transmission. During Neolithic these signs were synthesized in a code by which shape is reduced to essential message, so imprinting an emotional structure. Life, death, cycling, dynamism and stability are some of the concepts that appear on the Neolithic cult objects through forms like circle, triangle, diamond or square. In addition, signs and semicircle, wavy line, zigzag line, cross and spiral, appear as abstract motifs on religious objects,receiving a sacred load.

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