Название: ROCK ART AND OTHER ARCHAEOLOGICAL CAVE USE ON THE NORTH AMERICAN PLAINS FROM CANADA TO NORTHERN MEXICO
Источник: 15th International Congress of Speleology
Место публикации: Casper Wyoming USA
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Ключевые слова: ROCK ART, ARCHAEOLOGICAL CAVE, археология, наскальная живопись
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Реферат: Rock art associated with caves is mostly pictographs (painted figures) although petroglyphs (engraved figures) occur in some entrance areas. Other kinds of cultural debris found in caves includes house remains, butchered bones, ocher mining, cold food storage, cultural deposits, log structures, human remains, stone and dirt platforms, placed objects and animal remains, and other items discarded from
ritual. Natural light zones are divided into categories based on available light and personal orientation: Daylight, Twilight, Transitional Dark, and Dark zones. Rock art occurs in all zones, while other archeological manifestations mostly occur in Daylight to initial Transitional Dark zone settings. Rock art setting and position of other materials are generally evaluated relative to public and private use, or
positions, although reevaluation of that distinction suggests the situation is more complex, and almost all rock art placement could be considered public in some sense. Most cultural materials in caves within the middle of the continent seem to date from the last 3500 years, with most in the last 1000 years. Implied function includes occupation in a protected setting, ritual activity, refuge areas for escape and hiding, ritual deposition of objects and animal remains, and disposal of the dead. Ease of reaching the desired location in the cave is highly variable, with open entrance areas easily accessed and other locations severely isolated by passage restrictions and complex navigation. Cave use throughout the region, as elsewhere, is part of generalized human activity and is not limited to particular cultural groups.