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«Фигурные предметы» со стоянок каменного века северо-востока Сибири: критический обзор
“Figured objects” from the Stone Age Sites of North-Eastern Siberia: a critical review

Author(s): Alexander I. Lebedintsev
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Cultural history, Visual Arts
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: North-Eastern Siberia; mobile art; figured artefacts; geoglyphs; semantics

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a critical review of stone “figured objects” from the Stone Age sites of Chukotka and Kamchatka. Some researchers date them to the Palaeolithic. However, both the age of some sites and the semantics of most images (interpreted as mammoths, mammoth-bisons, bears, birds, fishes) are highly questionable. The interpretation of these putative images is very often unsubstantiated and subjective. In fact, many of the objects in question are just flakes which have nothing to do with the artwork.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 155-161
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian