Irina Ponomareva

The book offers a detailed study of large corpus of rock art which is little known to an international audience. The book covers not only a huge region of East Siberia but also a period spanning from Late Paleolithic to the Iron Age, providing detailed accounts of the regional archaeology and rock art through the perspective of ethnicity, identity,...

The paper explores the phenomenon of rock art found in and around rock art cavities in Trans-Baikal region of South-East Siberia. Although many researchers noticed that caves have had a special value in cultures around the globe, no research has been carried out specifically into the cave rock art of Trans-Baikal which was not distinguished from ot...

In Trans-Baikal, East Siberia, a large body of rock art is related to the early nomadic cultures of the 2nd-1st Millennia BC. Rock art traditions present there have been considered as homogeneous and persistent during this long period of time. This paper aims to explore the manifold nature of these traditions related to turbulent social and ethno-c...

This paper focuses on a stylistic analysis of depictions of elk in Siberian rock art in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. The aim of this paper is to go beyond the cultural and chronological attributions of rock art and to try to understand why and through what processes changes in rock‐art style occurred. In order to answer these questions, the pheno...

This paper explores the problem of the correlation of rock art traditions and archaeological cultures of the lower Amur basin (Russian Far East) in the Neolithic period. The aim of the paper is to reconsider established chronology based on recent archaeological findings and advances in rock art data. This researcher's previous paper on this topic o...

This paper provides the initial chronological framework for an Australian Aboriginal women's sacred area, based on the first absolute ages obtained through luminescence dating. The Thirteen Mile Creek site of the Avon Downs women's sacred area provides evidence for various aspects of women's lives, including lithic raw material extraction and lithi...

Rock art creates and maintains a strong connection between people, their past, and their land. Being able to tell us about the past, it belongs to the present and the future. Rock art is a phenomenon of constant form but changing meaning. It remains where it was placed, but the impression and interpretation of rock art differs between every epoch a...

The paper examines the evolution of the rock art in Trans-Baikal through the lens of zoomorphic forms’ development. In 2017, as a result of the author’s fieldwork in Trans-Baikal, 28 sites with 917 figures and 63 sites with 4752 were documented in Zabaykalskiy Krai and Buryatia respectively. This paper is primarily based on the author’s field data....

The paper presents new materials on the rock art of Trans-Baikal which are relevant for the study of ancient shamanism. New data on the sites Pilotka, Baraun-Konduy I and Mogoytuy is being published for the first time. The paper also considers the methodology of the identification of images which may relate to shamanic/shamanistic worldviews and pr...

This paper brings together brief information on all cave rock art sites of Trans-Baikal, the phenomenon of which was not in the focus of previous research and presents the results of the analysis of this cave art, which revealed the significant role of the motif of bird-of-prey. The bird symbolism in the cave context might be the evidence of religi...

Russia is a vast country and rock art has been documented in many regions. The majority of Russian rock art is found in Siberia, the Russian Far East, and the Ural Mountains. This chapter reviews the historical development of rock art research in Russia, starting in the seventeenth century; it touches on significant discoveries, substantial contrib...

This paper attempts to chronologically attribute one of compositions of the Khaysagar rock art site in the context of problematic post-Selenga tradition rock art. A new detailed tracing of this composition allowed revealing the details of the costume and weapon of anthropomorphic figures. It is suggested that the composition belongs to two periods;...

The paper presents some results of the author’s 2017 fieldwork in Trans-Baikal which speaks to the importance and relevance of further research on the issue of the earliest rock art in East Siberia. Several sites which could be of a very deep age were re-examined, such as Byrka, Shaman-Gora and Butikha, and a new site Staraya Zhila featuring a zoom...

The paper presents data on a new rock art site Imandan-Makit which is located in the upper reaches of the Nercha river (Zabaykalsky Krai, Tungokochensky district). The survey of the site included description, photography, GPS and preservation assessment. This site recorded by A. V. Konstantinov as well as field research recently carried out by I. A...

Four centuries of rock art exploration and research in Siberia resulted in considerable achievements in documentation, cultural and chronological attributions of style and traditions and learning about ancient ritual practices related to rock art. However, the range of interpretational frameworks has remained rather limited, and the active role roc...

Siberia is an extensive geographical region, and it has a rich body of rock art. This chapter is focused on one of the largest regions of Siberia and the Russian Federation, the Sakha/Yakutia Republic. It commences with an outline of the timeline and geography, continues with the history of rock art scholarship, and then is followed by a review of...

Siberia is an extensive geographical region, and it has a rich body of rock art. This entry is focused on two interrelated large rock art provinces: the Baikal and Transbaikal regions. It starts with an outline of timeline and geography, continues with the history of rock art scholarship, and then is followed by a review of rock art traditions and...

Нельзя сказать, чтобы судьба к Александру Васильевичу Знаменско- му (1876–1955) благоволила. В отличие от всех остальных героев этой книги, он не построил успешной научной карьеры за рубежом, и да- же после смерти признание к нему так и не пришло. По крайней ме- ре, пока. Тем не менее он вызывает пристальное внимание историков. Тому есть две причин...

The anthropomorphic figures of East Siberia considered here have been presumably dated to the Bronze Age to Early Iron Age by previous researchers. They comprise of various scenes and compositions but many of them render a similar style throughout Cis-Baikal, Trans-Baikal and Yakutia. This paper explores the issue of general and specific traits in...

This paper is a brief report on a field survey of rock art sites carried out by the author in June 2017. The fieldwork has been supported by Griffith University (Australia) and it is a part of the author’s ongoing PhD project on the rock art of East Siberia (Neolithic-Bronze Age). The field research also included the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and th...

This article presents the results of examination of the rock art sites Naran-Kulskiy (Naran- Khabsagai) and Khotogoi-Khabsagai (preliminary). The undertaken study showed that the wrong information about the site Naran-Kulskiy (Naran-Khabsagai) has been repeated many times in archaeological lite-rature; the truth is that the site was referred by A....

The article focuses on Siberian petroglyphs traditionally attributed to being of the Angara style. Views regarding the distribution and chronology of this vaguely defi ned style are divergent. The objective of this article is to give it a more stringent defi nition, to assess its chronology and its relationship to the rock art of western and southe...