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

ER -