The image of a bird of prey in the metal — plastic cultures of the early iron age of the forest-steppe and south taiga regions of Central Siberia

Abstract

The article studies the origin and transformation of the image of a bird of prey in the metalloplasty of the forest-steppe and south-taiga regions of Central Siberia during the Scythian period of the early Iron Age. It was found that images of a bird of prey penetrated the region under study from the southwest and south, from the environment of the Bolsherechensk and Tagar communities, and there from Altai, Tuva, China, Kazakhstan. For the first time, openwork images of a bird of prey penetrated the territory of the Krasnoyarsk forest-steppe in the VI century. BC e. and spread exclusively to the east along island forest-steppes. Together with them, volumetric realistic images appear in the forest-steppes, which in the V-III centuries. BC e. Penetrate from south to north along the Chuno-Angarsk watershed into the Angarsk taiga, where they received massive use in decorating the belt headset. From the VI century BC, a flat stylized style of depicting a bird of prey spreads throughout the region, first used in the casting of bronze objects, and later, from the III-II centuries. BC e. — during the forging of iron. All three styles did not disappear with the advent of the new, but continued to be used until the era.