Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 42 (1) 2014

Annotation:  The Pleistocene Peopling of the North: Paleolithic Milestones and Thresholds Horizons in Northern Eu The Levallois Mousterian Assemblages of Sindh (Pakistan) and Their Relations with the Middle Paleol Chronology of the Uralian Neolithic The Late Krotovo (Cherno-Ozerye) Culture in the Irtysh Forest-Steppe, Western Siberia An Experimental Study of Percussion Technologies in the Minusinsk Basin: Percussion and Tool Types Prehistoric Wars and the Origin of Military Power (Based on Archaeological and Historical- Ethnolog Anthropomorphic Wooden Figures from the Trans-Urals Images on Metal Ware: The Graphic Art of Northwestern Siberia and the Cis-Urals Seventeenth Century Moscow Tiles in Russia Female Ornaments of the Xiongnu-Xianbei Age from Ulug-Choltukh, the Edigan River Valley, Gorny Alta Kayakers Near Scotland’s Northern Shores at the Turn of the 17th–18th Centuries: Main Theories of O Bichura Village (Transbaikalia): Foundation and Population Growth (18th–Late 20th Century) Trepanation Among the Early Nomads of Gorny Altai: A Multidisciplinary Study On the Biological Distinctness of the Pit-Grave (Yamnaya) People in the Northwestern Caspian: Crania   

Images on Metal Ware: The Graphic Art of Northwestern Siberia and the Cis-Urals

N.V. Fedorova.

Engravings on Early Iron Age and medieval metal plaques, mirrors, and imported eating utensils from the northwestern Urals and northwestern Siberia are described in the context of local art of the period. The distribution area of such drawings is determined, and new interpretations are suggested. The specimens are analyzed in terms of imagery, iconography, scenes, and composition. Engravings on early 2nd millennium AD silver plaques are discussed in particular. All such representations display numerous iconographic and compositional similarities and the characters depicted are the same. Parallels with ancient and medieval art of northwestern Siberia and the northwestern Urals are revealed, especially parallels with bronze sculpture.

Keywords: Engravings, iconography, composition, fi gurative art, northwestern Siberia, northwestern Urals.