How Long to Read Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture

How Long Does it Take to Read Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture by Yosef Garfinkel

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

As the nomadic hunters and gatherers of the ancient Near East turned to agriculture for their livelihood and settled into villages, religious ceremonies involving dancing became their primary means for bonding individuals into communities and households into villages. So important was dance that scenes of dancing are among the oldest and most persistent themes in Near Eastern prehistoric art, and these depictions of dance accompanied the spread of agriculture into surrounding regions of Europe and Africa. In this pathfinding book, Yosef Garfinkel analyzes depictions of dancing found on archaeological objects from the Near East, southeastern Europe, and Egypt to offer the first comprehensive look at the role of dance in these Neolithic (7000-4000 BC) societies. In the first part of the book, Garfinkel examines the structure of dance, its functional roles in the community (with comparisons to dance in modern pre-state societies), and its cognitive, or symbolic, aspects. This analysis leads him to assert that scenes of dancing depict real community rituals linked to the agricultural cycle and that dance was essential for maintaining these calendrical rituals and passing them on to succeeding generations. In the concluding section of the book, Garfinkel presents and discusses the extensive archaeological data—some 400 depictions of dance—on which his study is based.

How long is Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture?

Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture by Yosef Garfinkel is 346 pages long, and a total of 88,576 words.

This makes it 117% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture aloud.

What Reading Level is Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture?

Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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