List of contents
Book 1
Foreword Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (English) ...... 2 Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Arabic) ...... 4
Introductions Oliver Grimm ...... 6 Karl-Heinz Gersmann ...... 9 Anne-Lise Tropato – Why should we look at images of raptors on the fist? ...... 10
Glossaries Bird glossary ...... 12 Falconry glossary ...... 13
Chapter 1 – Synthesis ...... 15
Oliver Grimm Raptor on the fist: falconry, its imagery and similar motifs throughout the millennia on a global scale – a synthesis against a broader background ...... 17
Chapter 2 – Introduction, method and overall contextualisation ...... 35
Mark Williams An ancient sport in modern times ...... 37
Ellen Hagen The hawk and I: reconnecting to a lost heritage ...... 53
Anita Gamauf (†) Palaearctic birds of prey from a biological point of view ...... 65
David A. Warburton Birds of prey and religion: aspects of the first 40,000 years of early bird-and-human contact ...... 85
Alexandra Pesch “Image Science” in archaeological research ...... 111
Horst Bredekamp Falconry as a variant of the image act ...... 123
XII Hans Nugteren Linguistic aspects of the term shaman in northern Eurasia ...... 135
Michael Knüppel The term “shaman” (I): reflections on the history of linguistic science ...... 147
Michael Knüppel The term “shaman” (II): the eagle in Siberian folk religions ...... 159
Hannes Petrischak Birds in constellations ...... 165
Chapter 3 – Raptors in religion / Raptors in early images ...... 177
María Lazarich and Antonio Ramos-Gil Birds in rock art from hunter-gatherers and the first agro-pastoral communities in the Iberian Peninsula ...... 179
Sandra L. Olsen Building the foundation for falconry in Arabia: a holistic approach with emphasis on rock art ...... 201
Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak and Jean Clottes Birds in Indian rock art ...... 225
Paul S. C. Taçon Depictions of eagles, hawks and owls in the rock art of Australia ...... 243
Kerry Hull Avian raptors in North American indigenous ritual and tradition ...... 249
Robert Fergus Becoming bird: 2,500 years of human-raptor interactions in Mesoamerica ...... 271
Elisabeth von der Osten-Sacken Decorative raptors, protective raptors. Bird talon amulets and other forms of apotropaic use of birds of prey in the ancient Near East from the Epipalaeolithic to the Neo-Assyrian period (c. 20,000–500 BC) ...... 287
Anatoli Nagler The burial of birds of prey in kurgan Arzhan 2 (Tuva, southern Siberia, Russian Federation, 7th century BC) and its meaning ...... 327
Dilyana Boteva Birds of prey in the visual texts of ancient Thrace and Dacia ...... 337
XIII Jennifer M. Bagley Bird depictions of the central European Iron Age (especially the second half of the 1st millennium BC) ...... 361
Johannes Nollé Birds of prey on Greek and Roman coins – symbols of super-human power, manifestations of gods, and heaven’s messengers ...... 387
Ekaterina Kashina and Aleksandr Emelyanov In bird we trust: bone bird pendants made by forest hunter-gatherer-fishers in the central part of the East European Plain (3500–2700 BC) ...... 403
Roman Shiroukhov Prussian horse forehead pendants with bird of prey images, their analogies and dating . . .417
Bruno Overlaet Late Pre-Islamic raptor imagery from south-east Arabia ...... 439
Chapter 4 – Archaeology: early falconry images ...... 449
Sigmund Oehrl “I am Eagle” – Depictions of raptors and their meaning in the art of Late Iron Age and Viking Age Scandinavia (c. AD 400–1100) ...... 451
Oliver Grimm The early 7th century AD Rickeby (Vallentuna) cremation grave from mid-east Sweden, understood as a three-dimensional painting/still life embodying three different kinds of falconer ...... 481
Tom Lorenz Burial arrangements and conceptions about the afterlife in Old Norse literary sources from the 9th to the 14th century, with reference to the role of birds of prey played therein . . 489
Algirdas Girininkas and Linas Daugnora Historical and archaeological sources on birds of prey in the cremation rites in the State of Lithuania in the 13th to 14th centuries ...... 511
Book 2
Jose Manuel Fradejas Rueda The depiction of falconry on Late Roman/Early Byzantine mosaics ...... 519
Andreas Külzer Raptor and falconry images in the Byzantine Empire ...... 535
XIV Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto Birds of glory: the falcon (and its absence) in Sasanian art ...... 557
Leslie V. Wallace Early raptor and falconry imagery in China: four case studies (10th century BC until 8th century AD) ...... 569
Naďa Profantová Early medieval depictions of falconry from eastern Central Europe in the 8th–9th centuries . 587
Verena Daiber The falcon and the ruler. Birds of prey in the iconography of nobility and leadership in the art of the Central Arabic lands from the 1st to 9th century AH / 7th to 15th century AD . . .605
Magdalena Valor Falconry and birds of prey from al-Andalus: typology of imagery ...... 631
Patrice Cressier The scarcity of falconry images in the medieval Maghreb (9th–15th centuries) ...... 651
Alessandra Bagnera Falconry and raptor images in Islamic Sicily (10th to mid-11th centuries) ...... 667
Chapter 5 – Art history: younger falconry images ...... 683
Baudouin Van den Abeele Themes and developments of falconry depictions in medieval and early modern iconography of Western Europe (12th–16th centuries) – first results gained from the FalconICON database . . 685
Ralf Bleile The rider with a bird on his arm. On the interpretation of the “rider with falcon” motif, taking the examples of the Bayeux Tapestry and the seal of King Canute IV of Denmark . .715
Åsa Ahrland Hawks and falconry in North European portraiture against a broader European background during the early modern period (c. 1500–1800) ...... 739
Vera Henkelmann The falcon and its significance in depictions of courtly love on late medieval mirror cases (14th century) from Western European workshops ...... 763
Anne-Lise Tropato Man, death and birds of prey: images of an encounter (Christian Occident, 13th–15th centuries) ...... 797
Olga Karaskova-Hesry Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482): lady with a hawk ...... 819
XV Jerôme Delhaye Falconry as a symbol of peace in 13th–16th century Western European art ...... 835
Yannis Hadjinicolaou Flying images. Falconry’s visual afterlife ...... 855
Leor Jacobi On the mighty hand of the Lord: medieval falconry intrudes upon the biblical narrative . . 879
Rachel Parikh Flights of fancy: falconry in Iranian art from the 12th to the 19th century ...... 903
Rachel Parikh “The king’s boon companion”: falconry in Mughal imperial portraiture from Akbar to Azam Shah, 1556–1707 ...... 929
F. Nalan Türkmen Predator bird and falconry iconography and imagery in the Hünernâme (Ottoman Turkish illuminated manuscript, late 16th century) ...... 945
Jangar Ilyasov Birds of prey and falconry imagery in ancient and medieval Central Asian art ...... 955
Yuji Mizuno A symbol of power: Japanese falconry images (8th to 17th centuries) ...... 969
Chapter 6 – A look onto splendid late falconry literature (19th century), seen against a wider background ...... 989
Karl-Heinz Gersmann Three monumental 19th-century books on falconry and its history – the last of their kind . . 991
Keiya Nakajima Falconry in Japan. Big changes before and after Ehon Takakagami (late 19th century) . . . . 1015
Chapter 7 – The future: building up databases on falconry imagery ...... 1039
Baudouin Van den Abeele and Jérôme Delhaye FalconICON. A database on the iconography of medieval and early Renaissance falconry in Western Europe ...... 1041
Anne-Lise Tropato Falconry as digital cultural heritage. Some theoretical and technical implications on building a virtual collection of artistic representations of falconry ...... 1047
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