The image of a bull in the pictures of the Ketpen ridge (based on materials from the gorges Nauakesken, Uzynkungey)
Amargazieva A.
30 June 2022Margulan Institute of Archaeology
Kazakhstan Archeology
2022#16Issue 29 - 23 pp.
Petroglyphs are one of the earliest sources of information about the life, culture and worldview of ancient people. Currently, various methods of studying petroglyphs have been developed and historical knowledge in this area has been sufficiently accumulated. However, one of the urgent problems of modern science is still the complex study of rock carvings, which requires solving issues related to the definition of chronology, interpretation, etc. The article presents the preliminary results of a comparative historical, cultural and semiotic study of the bull image recorded on the rocky surfaces of the northern slopes of the Ketpen ridge in the Nauakesken and Uzynkungey gorges (Almaty region). These petroglyphs are still poorly studied. The research of scientists focused on the analysis of the representations of the ancient population is taken as a basis; an attempt is made to produce cultural and chronological attribution of images, to determine the main reasons for the application of animal images to the surface of the stone, to comprehend the plot of petroglyphs. In addition, rock carvings from Zhetysu and Southern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan were compared; the relevance of studying these archaeological sites was noted.
Archaeology , Art , Bronze Age , Bull , Ideology , Ketpen , Myth , Petroglyph , Worldview
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