Issue 1 (58)
| PLEISTOCENE PROTOTYPES HOLOCENE IMAGES OF THE URALS | |||
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| Year | 2018 | Number | 1(58) |
| Pages | 39-44 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 903.27(470.5)”63” | BBK | 63.442.12(235.55) |
| Authors | Shirokov Vladimir N. |
Topic | SHIGIR IDOL: DATES, CONTEXTS, INTERPRETATIONS |
| Summary | There are three known caves containing the Pleistocene period drawings ― the Kapova, the Ignatjevskaya, and the Serpievskaya 2 caves. In them, alongside with the glacial time drawings, there were some anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and aviamorphic representations which had correlations in the art of the post-Pleistocene period ― of the Mesolithic, the Late Stone and the Early Iron Ages. What are we dealing with? With the phenomenon was advanced development, “running ahead” according to L.B. Vishnyatsky, what does the appearence and the disappearance of the phenomenon mean within the Upper Palleolithic? Similar picture could be observed in the mid Upper Paleolithic, when alongside with the Gravettian pieces in Moravia there appeared some terra cotta items, geometric microliths, polished tools and some other techniques and artifacts which disappeared in the late Paleolithic after the break up of the Gravettian unity during the Glacial Maximum, and reappeared again already in the Holocene cultures. On the contrary, according to the author, the Upper Paleolithic art in the Ural reflected the emergence of the figurative motives marking the beginning of the artistic tradition which continued in the art of the Holocene in that territory. The images on the Shigir Idol as well as the aviaforms from the Muradymovskaya 2 cave which could be interpreted as the “links” between the Paleolithic and the post-Paleolithic art seemed to support the latter hypothesis together with the other specialists' conclusions about the formation of the Mesolithic culture in the Cis-Ural on the basis of the Final Paleolithic industries of the Ural Upper Paleolithic culture. According to the author this interpretation of the phenomenon could be quite plausible especially in view of the existence of other facts confirming the proposed hypothesis. | ||
| Keywords | Urals, caves, rock art, Pleistocene, Holocene | ||
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