ANCIENT MURALS OF THE SHAKHTY ROCK SHELTER IN THE LIGHT OF RESEARCH METHODS DEVELOPMENT (BASED ON V. A. RANOV’S ARCHIVE MATERIALS AND MODERN DATA)

DOI_disc_logo https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2022)34(3).-01
Keywords: Eastern Pamirs, Shakhty rock shelter, rock art, painted images, rock art recording, DStretch, V. A. Ranov

Abstract

The article discusses the rock images of the Shakhty rock shelter. The authors’ archival research in 2021 and 2022 revealed field diaries, photographs and colour photo slides of V. A. Ranov, who was the first to find the site, in the archive of A. Donish Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. The combination of evidence obtained from these sources, and a modern examination of panels with images, made it possible to shed light on the method of recording the murals of the rock shelter in 1958. The rerecording of these images in 2019 and DStretch colour filtering of the obtained photographs made it possible to refine the contours and details of some images that are important for the attribution and subsequent interpretation of individual images. The authors assume that murals of the Shakhty rock shelter were not all created at the same time, as suggested by V. A. Ranov, dating them from the Mesolithic — early Neolithic. The presence of paint of different shades, varying degree of preservation of the shelter murals, numerous palimpsests and refined details of the images on the rock give the grounds suggest different times of their creation. Based on the results of modern research, the images of the Shakhty rock shelter can be dated from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age.

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Author Biographies

I.V. Abolonkova, “Tomskaya Pisanitsa” Museum-Reserve

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Research and Exposition Department оf Kuzbass Museum-Reserve “Tomskaya Pisanitsa”

N.N. Sayfulloev, A. Donish Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography at the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Archaeology Department of A. Donish Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences the Republic of Tajikistan

L.V. Zotkina, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography

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Published
2022-09-26
How to Cite
Abolonkova I., Sayfulloev N., Zotkina L. ANCIENT MURALS OF THE SHAKHTY ROCK SHELTER IN THE LIGHT OF RESEARCH METHODS DEVELOPMENT (BASED ON V. A. RANOV’S ARCHIVE MATERIALS AND MODERN DATA) // THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 2022. Vol. 34, № 3. P. 9-23 DOI: 10.14258/tpai(2022)34(3).-01. URL: http://journal.asu.ru/tpai/article/view/11918.
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Vol 34 No 3 (2022)
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THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES OF ARCHAEOLOGY

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