Inner Asia at the dawn of history

Okladnikov, A. P.; Crookenden, Julia

doi:10.1017/chol9780521243049.004

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“…3). Deer stones are the most spectacular form of monumental stelae in Inner Asia, elaborately carved and finished art objects (Jacobson 1993;Okladnikov 1990;Volkov 1981Volkov [2002). These standing stones are found alone, in groups, and added to complexes of other monuments.…”

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“…Elaborately carved 'deer stones' are one of the last elements to be added to the monumental complexes of the eastern steppe. They depict figures, perhaps individuals or perhaps idealized types or supernatural entities (Jacobson 1993;Okladnikov 1990;Volkov 1981Volkov [2002), represent important events that occurred at the places where they stand, or simply evoke the smoke of sacrificial fires. The deer stone tradition moved Mongolian standing stones away from individual burials, where they had been in the Bronze Age hungchuluu tradition, and firmly to the front and centre -literally, as most deer stones stand in front of arrays or khirigsuurs, or form avenues that lead up to or away from them (Jacobson 1993;Takahama & Hayashi 2003).…”

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The Work of Monuments: Reflections on Spatial, Temporal and Social Orientations in Mongolia and the Maya Lowlands

Jackson

Wright²

2014

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In this article, we look at two very different contexts of monument use – Bronze Age Inner Asia and the Classic period Maya lowlands – in order to explore the function and meanings of monuments and the variety of ways in which they worked to mark and differentiate ancient landscapes. Our goal in uniting such disparate contexts is to examine how power and social organization in these settings were translated into monumental material forms, and how such materializations were experienced by those who viewed and re-interpreted the monuments. In particular, we explore how monuments acted as orientational markers within specific cultural contexts. Our discussion finds common ground between the disparate settings through several common interpretive frameworks focused on spatial, temporal and social orientational work accomplished by active, agentive monuments through their relationships with humans, which we frame as a ‘technology of the monument’. Monuments are instrumental in situating groups within these different layers, or landscapes, of lived experience, yet even while physically fixed, allow for movement through changing meanings and ideas.

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The Work of Monuments: Reflections on Spatial, Temporal and Social Orientations in Mongolia and the Maya Lowlands

Jackson

Wright²

2014

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“…Examples of these monumental phenomena include the square within circle shaped burial monuments of the Siberian Early Bronze Age Afanasevo culture (3700-2300 BC) in the Altai and the upper Yenisei valley (Kiselev, 1951;Semyonov, 1983;Dergachev 1989;Okladnikov, 1990;Askarov et al, 1992;Gö rsdorf et al, 2001). In the Tarim Basin the wood and stone monuments of Gumougu are attributed to 3rd millennium BC Neolithic or Early Bronze Age nomadic pastoralists (Debaine-Francfort, 1988).…”

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Organizational principles of Khirigsuur monuments in the lower Egiin Gol valley, Mongolia

Wright

2007

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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“…Prior to the Tungus’s appearance in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Sea of Okhotsk was inhabited by the coastal Koryak as far as the Nivkhi ethnic border on the Uda River. The ethnic composition of the coastal Koryak comprised dialectally and culturally diverse groups of sedentary river fishers and (to a lesser extent) sea hunters, who gradually assimilated and converged into a broader generic group [ 12 – 17 ]. As a result of the northeastern spread of the Tungusic people, a large segment of the Koryak population was assimilated, and the coastal Koryak territory became greatly reduced, effectively ending the Old Koryak culture there [ 12 ].…”

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Genetic legacy of cultures indigenous to the Northeast Asian coast in mitochondrial genomes of nearly extinct maritime tribes

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Background: We have described the diversity of complete mtDNA sequences from 'relic' groups of the Russian Far East, primarily the Nivkhi (who speak a language isolate with no clear relatedness to any others) and Oroki of Sakhalin, as well as the sedentary Koryak from Kamchatka and the Udegey of Primorye. Previous studies have shown that most of their traditional territory was dramatically reshaped by the expansion of Tungusic-speaking groups. Results: Overall, 285 complete mitochondrial sequences were selected for phylogenetic analyses of published, revised and new mitogenomes. To highlight the likely role of Neolithic expansions in shaping the phylogeographical landscape of the Russian Far East, we focus on the major East Eurasian maternal lineages (Y1a, G1b, D4m2, D4e5, M7a2, and N9b) that are restricted to the coastal area. To obtain more insight into autochthonous populations, we removed from the phylogeographic analysis the G2a, G3a2, M8a1, M9a1, and C4b1 lineages, also found within our samples, likely resulting from admixture between the expanding proto-Tungus and the indigenous Paleoasiatic groups with whom they assimilated. Phylogenetic analysis reveals that unlike the relatively diverse lineage spectrum observed in the Amur estuary and northwestern Sakhalin, the present-day subpopulation on the northeastern coast of the island is relatively homogenous: a sole Y1a sublineage, conspicuous for its nodal mutation at m.16189 T > C!, includes different haplotypes. Sharing of the Y1a-m.16189 T > C! sublineages and haplotypes among the Nivkhi, Ulchi and sedentary Koryak is also evident. Aside from Y1a, the entire tree approach expands our understanding of the evolutionary history of haplogroups G1, D4m, N9b, and M7a2. Specifically, we identified the novel haplogroup N9b1 in Primorye, which implies a link between a component of the Udegey ancestry and the Hokkaido Jomon.

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Inner Asia at the dawn of history

Cited by 37 publications

References 68 publications

The Work of Monuments: Reflections on Spatial, Temporal and Social Orientations in Mongolia and the Maya Lowlands

The Work of Monuments: Reflections on Spatial, Temporal and Social Orientations in Mongolia and the Maya Lowlands

Organizational principles of Khirigsuur monuments in the lower Egiin Gol valley, Mongolia

Genetic legacy of cultures indigenous to the Northeast Asian coast in mitochondrial genomes of nearly extinct maritime tribes

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