Social Memory Inscribed in Rock Art: Bear Restoration Complex in Pleistocene‑Holocene Transition Siberia and North America
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Using a poststructural practice approach to rock art interpretation, this paper seeks to reconstruct an understanding of the social and cognitive processes involved in the transmission of an ancient Angara rock art style from central Siberia to North America. Tungusic Manchu-speaking Evenki in Siberia produced rock art at ceremonial sites and inscribed images intended to communicate a regional Bear Restoration Complex and bear-human ancestry religious beliefs. The ancestral Evenki clans’ sha...
Source: Palethnologie
Author: Lynda D. McNeil
Institution: Arizona State University
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W154894481