«TOBOLSKY THINKER»: ABOUT INTERPRETATION OF ONE ANTHROPOMORPHOUS PERSONAGE IN THE ART OF CENTRAL ASIA IN THE ENEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGES
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https://doi.org/10.52967/akz2020.2.8.27.35Keywords:
archaeology, Central Asia, Middle East, small sculptures, anthropomorphous figure, petroglyphs, Okunev culture, wheel transport, charioteer, seals of UrukAbstract
The article is devoted to the anthropomorphic personage of small plastic art and rock art of Central Asia, which received the provisional name "Tobolsky thinker". The author draws attention to new analogies of this anthropomorphous personage in the art of the Central and Middle East of the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age, and also addresses the issue of ethnocultural and historical interpretation of this rare plot. The presentation of people in a sitting pose is typical of the eneolithic anthropomorphic plastics of the southern regions of Central Asia. The wide range of this image shows the ambiguity of its semantics. It is obvious that the purpose of sitting anthropomorphic figures in the art of the Eneolithic and Bronze Ages of Central Asia was varied. The naturality of the pose of a sitting person, the compactness of the image of a sitting figure, the hierarchical and professional context of this pose implies different interpretations of these artifacts despite their iconographic similarity.
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