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Battle and hunting scenes in Turkic rock art of the early middle ages in Altai. / Konstantinov, Nikita; Soenov, Vasilii; Cheremisin, Dimitry.
In: Rock Art Research, Vol. 33, No. 1, 01.05.2016, p. 8-18.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Battle and hunting scenes in Turkic rock art of the early middle ages in Altai
AU - Konstantinov, Nikita
AU - Soenov, Vasilii
AU - Cheremisin, Dimitry
N1 - The study was supported by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science (project 'Environmental management systems and production technology of the ancient and traditional societies of the Altai Mountains', code 536) and the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 14-28-00045). We would like to acknowledge these organisations for their financial support of our research. We would also like to thank Tonya Pankova and Joanna Dobson for their help in the preparation and editing of the manuscript, and we thank the four anonymous RAR referees for their valuable comments.
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - Petroglyphs from the early Middle Ages particularly stand out among monuments of Altai rock art. Petroglyphs dated to this period were executed using the technique of engraving, with great attention being paid to fine details. These petroglyphs are an important source in cultural studies of the Altai population of the second half of the 1st millennium CE. Drawing on historical and archaeological contexts, it is suggested that the battle and hunting scenes depicted in petroglyphs are associated with memorial rites and that such scenes depict the military and hunting exploits of deceased noble warriors. Hence the semantic content of battle and hunting scenes in Turkic rock art of this period can be described as resembling the genres of eulogy and panegyric.
AB - Petroglyphs from the early Middle Ages particularly stand out among monuments of Altai rock art. Petroglyphs dated to this period were executed using the technique of engraving, with great attention being paid to fine details. These petroglyphs are an important source in cultural studies of the Altai population of the second half of the 1st millennium CE. Drawing on historical and archaeological contexts, it is suggested that the battle and hunting scenes depicted in petroglyphs are associated with memorial rites and that such scenes depict the military and hunting exploits of deceased noble warriors. Hence the semantic content of battle and hunting scenes in Turkic rock art of this period can be described as resembling the genres of eulogy and panegyric.
KW - Altai
KW - Battle scene
KW - Hunting
KW - Petroglyph
KW - Turk
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84986913585
VL - 33
SP - 8
EP - 18
JO - Rock Art Research
JF - Rock Art Research
SN - 0813-0426
IS - 1
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