Pages: 155-161

The article offers a critical review of stone “figured objects” from the Stone Age sites of Chukotka and Kamchatka. Some researchers date them to the Palaeolithic. However, both the age of some sites and the semantics of most images (interpreted as mammoths, mammoth-bisons, bears, birds, fishes) are highly questionable. The interpretation of these putative images is very often unsubstantiated and subjective. In fact, many of the objects in question are just flakes which have nothing to do with the artwork.

Keywords: North-Eastern Siberia, mobile art, figured artefacts, geoglyphs, semantics

Information about author:

Alexander Lebedintsev (Magadan, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute named after N. A. Shilo, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Portovaya St., 16, Magadan, 685000, Russian Federation
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