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- S0869-60630000392-4-1
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- 20-36
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- The author refers the figurative, statuary and megalithic traditions of the ancient population of the Asian part of the steppe Eurasia and their development in the space and time to the figurative communications and also emphasizes figurative traditions - the Pit-Grave-Afanasievo, Andronovo and Karasuk and tries to reconstruct the fragments of its figurative codes.The following fragments of the Pit-Grave-Afanasievo graphic range are reconstructed:... => "solar" or "birdhead" personage (the first ancestor - a man, a charioteer or a woman) => a vehicle on disk wheels (a wagon, a cart or a two-wheeled cart) => a bull (fat or slim, in the South - a camel) => a bird (a crane) => cross shaped or phallic symbols =>... The Andronovo figurative tradition was developing on the basis of the bright and authentic Pit-Grave-Afanasievo one, the bearers of which in the second half of the 3rd millennium ВС settled on the whole Great steppe belt and forest steppe of Eurasia, so called "Northern wave". The southern impulse of this tradition's development, reserved a significant Sumerian component, has reached the territory of the Central Asia through the tribes of Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex. The fragments of the Andronovo graphic code are:... => "solarhead" personage in canonical poses (or a man with accentuated sexual characters and a "tail, sometimes with a "sphere" on the end") => a chariot (on the wheels with spokes harnessed with horses in a standard position, back to back, and the chariot is in only position "top view") => different types of weapon => a horse with a "forelock" detailed by mane (tail) => fat bulls with big horns curved forward => camels => solar symbols (cross shaped symbols) =>... The figurative code of the Karasuk tradition has a range of critical differences. There are no canonical "solarheads" personages, who are changed by the relative depiction of a man and possibly transformed into anthropomorphic megalithic construction - "deer stones" symbolizing charioteers. The fragments of the graphic code are:... => relative depiction of a man, often without gender differences and specifications => the objects of weaponry (on the deer stones) => a chariot with a special manner of the depiction of draft horses (or unharnessed) => a relative depiction of ahorse => a deer with branching horns => a fat bull => a wide range of symbols =>...Thus the Pit-Grave-Afanasievo figurative tradition stands out in the figurative monuments of the Early Bronze Age of the Central Asia. In the petroglyphs of the Middle and Late Bronze Age two chronological layers collocated to the first half- the third quarter of the 2 nd millennium ВС and the second half of the 2 nd - the first half of the 1 st millennium ВС, which can be related with the Andronovo and Karasuk traditions, are identified.
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- Pit-Grave (Yamnaya)-Afanasievo fi gurative tradition, Andronovo fi gurative tradition, Karasuk fi gurative tradition, megalithic tradition, ornamental tradition, figurative range/code, style, petroglyphs, communications, migrations, wagons, chariots
- Date of publication
- 01.07.2015
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RAS History & PhilologyRussian archeology
- ISSN (Print) 0869-6063
- ISSN (Online)3034-5774
THE FIGURATIVE COMMUNICATIONS OF THE POPULATION OF THE CENTRAL ASIA IN THE BRONZE AGE
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