Statue

This statue was found in the Jordan Valley at site called Gilgal, one of the earliest villages known to us. In terms of its shape and the raw material from which it is made, the statue resembles those of ancestral spirits used in traditional agricultural communities of today. In these tribal societies, ownership of land and crops is expressed by preserving the physical and spiritual remains of one's ancestors and by producing visual representations of their spirits, in the form of pillars or statues.