G. Caspari, T. Sadykov, J. Blochin, M. Bolliger, S. Szidat
{"title":"New evidence for a bronze age date of chariot depictions in the eurasian steppes","authors":"G. Caspari, T. Sadykov, J. Blochin, M. Bolliger, S. Szidat","doi":"10.7892/BORIS.136504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7892/BORIS.136504","url":null,"abstract":"Two-wheeled horse-drawn chariot depictions in the Eurasian steppe have long \u0000been stylistically dated to the Bronze Age. Here we present an example of a petroglyph embedded in the architecture of an early Scythian royal tomb in the Tuva Republic, Siberia. The construction of the tomb is dated through wiggle-matching to between 833 and 800 BCE (95.4%) thus providing a rare terminus ante quem for chariot depictions in southern Siberia.The new evidence supports the current chronological range for this type of petroglyph in the Eurasian steppe belt.","PeriodicalId":21481,"journal":{"name":"Rock Art Research","volume":"37 1","pages":"53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43068407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finger-counting in the Upper Palaeolithic","authors":"Karenleigh A. Overmann","doi":"10.31235/osf.io/wgbe5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/wgbe5","url":null,"abstract":"Upper Palaeolithic hand stencils at Cosquer Cave have been interpreted as forming a numeric code. The present analysis examined ‘digits’ at Cosquer and Gargas from the perspectives of modern ethnography, shared cognitive functioning and human hand anatomy, concluding that correspondences between the 27,000-year-old hand stencils and modern finger-counting practices, including the use of so-called biomechanically infeasible hand positions, are unlikely due to chance; thus, the hand stencils may indeed represent integers. Images of finger-signs may provide an additional avenue for interpreting Palaeolithic quantification.","PeriodicalId":21481,"journal":{"name":"Rock Art Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"63-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}