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Bronze Age Art: Kurgan Stelae, Nebra Sky Disk, Golden Hat, Mold Cape, Chinese Bronzes, Berlin Gold Hat, Trundholm Sun Chariot, Bronze Age Sword

Bronze Age Art: Kurgan Stelae, Nebra Sky Disk, Golden Hat, Mold Cape, Chinese Bronzes, Berlin Gold Hat, Trundholm Sun Chariot, Bronze Age Sword


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Kurgan stelae, Nebra sky disk, Golden hat, Mold cape, Chinese bronzes, Berlin Gold Hat, Trundholm sun chariot, Bronze Age sword, Golden Hat of Schifferstadt, Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch, Toreutics, Treasure of Villena, Bi, Ringlemere Cup, Eberswalde Hoard, Casco de Leiro, Ding, Gold lunula, Avanton Gold Cone, Permian bronze casts, Oxborough Dirk, G ng, Hove amber cup, Symbolkeramik. Excerpt: Kurgan stelae (Mongolian: Russian: Ukrainian: "stone babas"; Kyrgyz: ) or Balbals ( balbal, supposedly from a Turkic word meaning "ancestor" or "grandfather" or the Mongolic word "barimal" which means "handmade statue") are anthropomorphic stone stelae, images cut from stone, installed atop, within or around kurgans (i.e. tumuli), in kurgan cemeteries, or in a double line extending from a kurgan. The stelae are also described as "obelisks" or "statue menhirs." Spanning more than three millennia, they are clearly the product of various cultures. The earliest are associated with the Pit Grave culture of the Pontic-Caspian steppe. There are Iron Age specimens are identified with the Scythians and medieval examples with Turkic peoples. Such stelae are found in large numbers in Southern Russia, Ukraine, Prussia, southern Siberia, Central Asia and Mongolia. Anthropomorphic stelae were probably memorials to the honoured dead. They are found in the context of burials and funeral sanctuaries from the Eneolithic through to the Middle Ages. Ivanovovsky reported that Tarbagatai Torgouts (Kalmyks) revered kurgan obelisks in their country as images of their ancestors, and that when a bowl was held by the statue, it was to deposit a part of the ashes after the cremation of the deceased, and another part was laid under the base of the statue. When used architecturally, stelae could act as a system of stone fences, frequently surrounded by...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781233143047
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 77 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1233143042
  • Publisher Date: 19 Aug 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Kurgan Stelae, Nebra Sky Disk, Golden Hat, Mold Cape, Chinese Bronzes, Berlin Gold Hat, Trundholm Sun Chariot, Bronze Age Sword
  • Width: 189 mm


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