Two archaeologists from the Universities of Hawaii and Florida won the award for the “Best Pre-PhD Paper” at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America earlier this week, according to greekreporter.com.
Chelsea Gardner from the University of Hawaii along with her co-author Katie Fine from Florida State University were honored with the award for a talk titled ”Mycenaean Kourotrophoi Figurines and Lateralization Bias: How Recent Neurological Research Explains the Left-Cradling Phenomenon”.
The talk was given by Gardner at the January 2018 Archaeological Institute of America meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
According to the University of Hawaii news website, Gardner and Fine’s paper supported the argument that the depiction of women holding infants in the ancient Mycenaean ”kourotrophoi” figurines of Crete, intentionally reflects the neurobiological left-cradling bias.
This bias is the result of the brain’s emotional motivation, which comes from the right-hemisphere, on top of an evolutionary adaptation for successful infant nurturing.
With the term Mycenaean Greece or the Mycenaean civilization, archaeologists refer to the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, which lasted approximately from 1600 to 1100 B.C.
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