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Early art in the Urals: new research on the wooden sculpture from Shigir [Abstract, Bibliography] // Antiquity, Vol. 92, Issue 362, April 2018, pp. 334-350 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/early-art-in-the-urals-new-research-on-the-wooden-sculpture-from-shigir/1EE151AB1E571968B10267E48B78362AEarly art in the Urals: new research on the wooden sculpture from Shigir [Abstract, Bibliography] // Antiquity, Vol. 92, Issue 362, April 2018, pp. 334-350 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/early-art-in-the-urals-new-research-on-the-wooden-sculpture-from-shigir/1EE151AB1E571968B10267E48B78362A
Early art in the Urals: new research on the wooden sculpture from Shigir
- Mikhail Zhilin (a1), Svetlana Savchenko (a2), Svend Hansen (a3), Karl-Uwe Heussner (a3) ...
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- https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.48
- Published online: 24 April 2018
The carved wooden object uncovered from the Shigir peat bog in the Sverdlovsk region towards the end of the nineteenth century remains one of the oldest, known examples of monumental anthropomorphic sculpture from anywhere in the world. Recent application of new analytical techniques has led to the discovery of new imagery on its surface, and has pushed the date of the piece back to the earliest Holocene. The results of these recent analyses are placed here in the context of local and extra-local traditions of comparable prehistoric art. This discussion highlights the unique nature of the find and its significance for appreciating the complex symbolic world of Early Holocene hunter-gatherers.
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Quartär 61: 165–87.Google ScholarZhilin, M.G., Kosinskaya, L.L. & Savchenko, S.N.. 2017. Stone tools for chopping in the Mesolithic of the Middle Trans-Urals (with particular reference to the materials of the Gorbunovski peat bog sites). Stratum plus 2017 (1): 271–90. Google Scholar
Early art in the Urals: new research on the wooden sculpture from Shigir
- Mikhail Zhilin (a1), Svetlana Savchenko (a2), Svend Hansen (a3), Karl-Uwe Heussner (a3) ...
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- https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.48
- Published online: 24 April 2018
The carved wooden object uncovered from the Shigir peat bog in the Sverdlovsk region towards the end of the nineteenth century remains one of the oldest, known examples of monumental anthropomorphic sculpture from anywhere in the world. Recent application of new analytical techniques has led to the discovery of new imagery on its surface, and has pushed the date of the piece back to the earliest Holocene. The results of these recent analyses are placed here in the context of local and extra-local traditions of comparable prehistoric art. This discussion highlights the unique nature of the find and its significance for appreciating the complex symbolic world of Early Holocene hunter-gatherers.
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Abramova, Z.A. 1995. L'art paléolithique d'Europe orientale et de Sibérie. Grenoble: Jérôme Millon.Google ScholarBahn, P. & Pettitt, P.B. (ed.). 2009. Britain's oldest art: the Ice Age cave art of Creswell Crags. Swindon: English Heritage.Google ScholarBronk Ramsey, C. 2009. Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates. Radiocarbon 51: 337–60. https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_js_rc.51.3494CrossRef | Google ScholarChairkina, N.M. 2010. Peat-bog sites in the Trans-Urals. Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 38: 85–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeae.2011.02.007CrossRef | Google ScholarChairkina, N.M., Kuzmin, Y.V. & Burr, G.S.. 2013. Chronology of the perishables: first AMS 14C dates of wooden artefacts from Aeneolithic–Bronze Age waterlogged sites in the Trans-Urals, Russia. Antiquity 87: 418–29. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00049036CrossRef | Google Scholard'Errico, F. 1994. L'art grave azilien de la technique à la signification (Gallia Préhistoire supplement 31). Paris: CNRS.Google ScholarDietrich, O., Heun, M., Notroff, J., Schmidt, K. & Zarnkow, M.. 2012. The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities: new evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey. Antiquity 86: 674–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00047840CrossRef | Google ScholarGhemiş, C., Clottes, J., Gély, B. & Prud'homme, F.. 2011. An exceptional archaeological discovery: the ‘Art Gallery’ in Coliboaia Cave, Apuseni Mountains, Romania. Acta Archaeologica Carpathica 46: 5–18.Google ScholarHansen, S. 2007. Bilder vom Menschen der Steinzeit (Archäologie in Eurasien 20). Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.Google ScholarHansen, S. 2014. Neolithic figurines in Anatolia, in Özdoğan, M., Başgelen, N. & Kuniholm, P. (ed.) The Neolithic in Turkey 6: 265–92. Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat.Google ScholarHartz, S., Terberger, T. & Zhilin, M.. 2010. New AMS-dates for the Upper Volga Mesolithic and the origin of microblade technology in Europe. Quartär 57: 155–69.Google ScholarHauptmann, H. 2003. Eine frühneolithische Kultfigur aus Urfa, in Özdoğan, M., Hauptmann, H. & Başgelen, N. (ed.) From village to cities: early villages in the Near East: 623–36. Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat.Google ScholarHauptmann, H. & Schmidt, K.. 2007. Anatolien vor 12.000 Jahren. Die Skulpturen des Frühneolithikums, in Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum (ed.) Vor 12.000 Jahren in Anatolien. Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit: 67–73. Karlsruhe: Konrad Theiss.Google ScholarHeikel, A. 1894. Antiquites de la Siberie occidentale (Memoires de la Societe finno-ougrienne VI). Helsingfors: Société de littérature finnoise.Google ScholarKabacinski, J., Hartz, S. & Terberger, T.. 2011. Elks in the Early Stone Age art of the northern lowlands. Prähistorische Zeitschrift 86: 151–64. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz.2011.010CrossRef | Google ScholarKozłowski, J.K. 1992. L'art de la préhistoire en Europe orientale. Paris: CNRS.Google ScholarLillie, M., Zhilin, M., Savchenko, S. & Taylor, M.. 2005. Carpentry dates back to Mesolithic. Antiquity Project Gallery 79(305). Available at: http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/lillie/ (accessed 6 September 2017).Google ScholarPetrin, V.I. & Širokov, V.N.. 1995. Die Ignatievka-Höhle (Ural). Jungpaläolithische Höhlenbilder und einige Aspekte ihrer Interpretation. Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 38, 1991 (1995): 17–31.Google ScholarPłonka, T. 2003. The portable art of Mesolithic Europe. Wrocław: University of Wrocław Press.Google ScholarReimer, P.J., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Beck, J.W., Blackwell, P.G., Bronk Ramsey, C., Buck, C.E., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Friedrich, M., Grootes, P.M., Guilderson, T.P., Haflidason, H., Hajdas, I., Hatté, C., Heaton, T.J., Hoffmann, D.L., Hogg, A.G., Hughen, K.A., Kaiser, K.F., Kromer, B., Manning, S.W., Niu, M., Reimer, R.W., Richards, D.A., Scott, E.M., Southon, J.R., Staff, R.A., Turney, C.S.M. & van der Plicht, J.. 2013. IntCal13 and Marine13 radiocarbon age calibration curves 0–50,000 years cal BP. Radiocarbon 55: 1869–87. https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_js_rc.55.16947CrossRef | Google ScholarSavchenko, S.N. 1999. The history of formation of the collection of Shigir antiquities in Sverdlovsk regional museum, in 120 years of archaeology of the eastern slope of the Urals: from the history of the Urals archaeology. The spiritual culture of the Urals: 46–53. Yekaterinburg: Urals State University.Google ScholarSavchenko, S.N. & Zhilin, M.G.. 2004. About new details of the big Shigir idol, in The fourth readings in the memory of Bers: 130–35. Yekaterinburg: Aqua.Google ScholarŠčelinskij, V.E. & Širokov, V.N.. 1999. Kapova und Ignatievka: die altsteinzeitlichen Bilderhöhlen im Ural (Thorbecke Speläo 5). Sigmaringen: Thorbecke.Google ScholarSchmidt, K. 2007. Die Steinkreise und die Reliefs des Göbekli Tepe, in Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum (ed.) Vor 12.000 Jahren in Anatolien. Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit: 83–96. Karlsruhe: Konrad Theiss.Google ScholarSerikov, Y.B. 2000. The Paleolithic and Mesolithic of the Middle Eastern Urals. Nizhnii Tagil: Nizhnii Tagil Social-Pedagogical Academy (in Russian).Google ScholarTusa, S., di Maida, G., Pastoors, A., Piezonka, H., Weniger, G.-Ch. & Terberger, T.. 2013. The Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi—new studies on the Ice Age cave art on Sicily. Prähistorische Zeitschrift 88: 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2013-0001CrossRef | Google ScholarShiyatov, S.G. n.d.. International tree ring database. Available at: www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo-search/study/4766 (accessed 12 March 2018).Google ScholarVeil, St. & Terberger, T.. 2009. Kunst und Umwelt im Wandel, in Planck, D., Heiligmann, J. & Conard, N.J. (ed.) Eiszeit: Kunst und Kultur: 347–51. Ostfildern: Thorbecke.Google ScholarZaretskaya, N.E., Panova, N.K., Zhilin, M.G., Antipina, T.G., Uspenskaya, O.N. & Savchenko, S.N.. 2014. Geochronology, stratigraphy, and evolution of Middle Uralian peatlands during the Holocene (exemplified by the Shigir and Gorbunovo peat bogs). Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 22: 632–54. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593814060082CrossRef | Google ScholarZhilin, M.G. 2007. The Early Mesolithic of the Upper Volga: selected problems, in Masojć, M., Płonka, T., Ginter, B. & Kozłowski, K. (ed.) Contributions to the Central European Stone Age: 89–104. Wrocław: Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław.Google ScholarZhilin, M.G. 2010. Mesolithic zoomorphic perforated antler staff heads from central Russia and Eastern Urals: ceremonial weapons or shaman's staves?, in Legrand-Pineau, A. & Sidéra, I. (ed.) Ancient and modern bone artefacts from America to Russia: cultural, technological and functional signature (British Archaeological Reports International series 2136): 135–40. Oxford: Archaeopress.Google ScholarZhilin, M.G. & Savchenko, S.. 2010. A ‘hoard’ of bone arrowheads from the site Beregovaya II in Eastern Urals area, in Davudov, O.M. (ed.) Problems of archaeology of Eurasia: 302–15. Makhachkala: Dagestan Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (in Russian).Google ScholarZhilin, M.G., Savchenko, S.N., Nikulina, E.A., Schmölcke, U., Hartz, S. & Terberger, T.. 2014. Eleven bone arrowheads and a dog coprolite—the Mesolithic site of Beregovaya 2, Urals region (Russia). Quartär 61: 165–87.Google ScholarZhilin, M.G., Kosinskaya, L.L. & Savchenko, S.N.. 2017. Stone tools for chopping in the Mesolithic of the Middle Trans-Urals (with particular reference to the materials of the Gorbunovski peat bog sites). Stratum plus 2017 (1): 271–90. Google Scholar