Mongolian Deer Stones, European Menhirs, and Canadian Arctic Inuksuit: Collective Memory and the Function of Northern Monument Traditions

Fitzhugh, William W.

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“…Among these are the iconic deer stone and khirgisuur (DSK) monumental complexes that form the main components of a ceremonial mortuary landscape dating to the Late Bronze Age (c. 1200-700 BC). Part of the larger 'kurgan' tradition of the Eurasian Steppe, these monuments are found mostly in central and northern Mongolia, but also in north-western China and southern Siberia (Erdenebaatar 2004;Allard & Erdenebaatar 2005;Amartuvshin 2007).…”

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High-precision dating of ceremonial activity around a large ritual complex in Late Bronze Age Mongolia

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“…Limited traces of this period have been recognized throughout Mongolia. Lake Hovsgol and the Selenge watershed contain some cultural material from this time, with some connections to South Siberian styles of burial and animal use, but this region has not yet presented a clear early narrative (Fitzhugh 2009a(Fitzhugh , 2017Fitzhugh and Bayarsaikhan 2011;Séfériadès 2004). Central to the narrative of early monument building in Mongolia is the recognition of the macroregional Afanasievo culture of the late fourth and early third millennium BC defined in the Sayano-Altai region but not clearly defined in Mongolia (Jia and Betts 2010;Svyatko et al 2009).…”

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“…This image also occurs in stationary rock art (Jacobson 1993;Jacobson-Tepfer 2001), portable artifacts, and, in later periods, tattooed on people's skins (Rudenko 1970;Simpson and Pankova 2017). Deer stones have been the focus of several recent research campaigns to catalog, document (Bayarsaikhan 2017; Turbat 2016), and investigate their chronology, iconography, and connections to the circumpolar world (Fitzhugh 2009b(Fitzhugh , 2017. To date, there are c. 1300 examples known in Mongolia (Turbat 2016), with more in the Altai in Russia and Xinjiang (Jacobson-Tepfer et al 2010).…”

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“…The anthropomorphic aspects of the stones, including faces, belts, and ears amid the deer imagery, are used to argue that they represent individuals. The syncretic motifs that dominate the stones suggest supernatural connections (Jacobson 1993) and macroregional systems of belief (Fitzhugh 2009a(Fitzhugh , 2017. Where people are represented as the main focus of the monuments, deer stones are presented as cenotaphs for chiefly individuals (Kovalev et al 2016;Liu 2014).…”

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Prehistoric Mongolian Archaeology in the Early 21st Century: Developments in the Steppe and Beyond

Wright

2021

J Archaeol Res

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There has been a great increase in archaeological research in Mongolia since 2000. Increasingly precise chronologies, regional studies, and the growth of development-driven archaeology are transforming our knowledge of this key region of northeastern Asia. This review summarizes recent work and provides a narrative of the prehistoric and medieval cultural sequences as presently understood. I focus on long-standing key topics: early human habitation, the adoption of food-producing economies, Bronze Age social transformations, and the emergence of central places and large polities. I argue that, on the one hand, Mongolia has unique data and new examples to offer the archaeological community and, on the other, that the prehistory of Mongolia and the steppe are not so different from the rest of the world in its history of research and key questions. This review provides general overviews covering the Upper Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic or Neolithic, and Bronze Age to the Xiongnu period; specific data related to each period provide jumping-off points for comparative analysis and further examination.

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“…), burials (Baires ; Paris et al. ), sites (Cobb and Butler ; Pugh and Rice ; Rice ), and landscapes (Fitzhugh ; Ling and Cornell ). The ways that archaeologists today are investigating ritual and meaning are increasingly diverse, both conceptually and methodologically.…”

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Finding Archaeology in 2017: What Is Archaeology and Why Are We Doing It? Why Should We Be Doing It?

Lewis

2018

American Anthropologist

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These annual review essays focus on what we as archaeologists are doing year by year. Many themes continue on from review to review, waxing and waning, not unlike the bell curves of a traditional pottery seriation.Each year, themes are highlighted and presented in varied ways according to the orientation and aims of the reviewer. All do a masterful job of curating the vast range of what archaeologists were, in each annual period, currently producing. My review follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, summarizing an array of new and exciting research, and describing how agendas presented in 2017 cluster around sets of related questions and aims. It will also look at the growing literature that asks, in one way or another, fundamental questions about what archaeology really is and why we pursue it. In this time when the value of academic pursuits and scientific perspectives are being highly scrutinized in politics and popular culture, archaeologists are faced with the uncomfortable question of "What is it, really, that we should be doing?" [archaeology, current issues, public archaeology, digital archaeology] RESUMEN Estos ensayos de revisión anual se enfocan en lo que como arqueólogos estamos haciendo año tras año. Muchos temas continúan de revisión en revisión, creciendo o menguando, no muy diferente de las curvas en forma de campana de la seriación de la cerámica tradicional. Cada año, temas son enfatizados y presentados de varias maneras de acuerdo a la orientación y metas del crítico. Todos hacen un trabajo magistral de organizar un rango vasto de lo que los arqueólogos estaban, en cada período anual, realmente produciendo. Mi revisión sigue los pasos de sus predecesores, resumiendo una colección de nueva y emocionante investigación, y describiendo cómo las agendas presentadas en el 2017 se agrupan alrededor de juegos de cuestiones y metas relacionadas.También examina la creciente literatura que pregunta, de una manera u otra, cuestiones fundamentales acerca de lo que la arqueología realmente es y por qué nos dedicamos a ella. En este tiempo cuando el valor de los empeños académicos y las perspectivas científicas están siendo altamente escrutados en política y cultura popular, los arqueólogos se enfrentan a la pregunta incomoda de "¿Qué es lo que realmente deberíamos estar haciendo?"[arqueología, cuestiones actuales, arqueología pública, arqueología digital] ARCHAEOLOGICAL FRAGMENTATION?While the theme of what such a diverse discipline should be subtly undergirds much of the literature, a number of 2017 articles, each in a very different way, directly address the very nature of what archaeology is and why we practice it. In the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Assaf Nativ (2017, 55) asks us to reconsider our notions of the

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Mongolian Deer Stones, European Menhirs, and Canadian Arctic Inuksuit: Collective Memory and the Function of Northern Monument Traditions

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

High-precision dating of ceremonial activity around a large ritual complex in Late Bronze Age Mongolia

High-precision dating of ceremonial activity around a large ritual complex in Late Bronze Age Mongolia

Prehistoric Mongolian Archaeology in the Early 21st Century: Developments in the Steppe and Beyond

Finding Archaeology in 2017: What Is Archaeology and Why Are We Doing It? Why Should We Be Doing It?

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