Perspectives on Differences in Rock Art - Jan Magne Gjerde
New Data on the Chronology of Lake Onega and the White Sea Area Petroglyphs
Perspectives on Differences in Rock Art - Jan Magne Gjerde
Nadezhda Valentinovna Lobanova [+]
Russian Academy of Sciences
Nadezhda Valentinovna Lobanova is a Senior Researcher of the Archaeological Department, Institute of Language, Literature and History of Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences. Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation. Research interests: epoch of Neolithic in the North-West of Russia, rock art of Karelia and Northern Fennoscandia. Recent publications. 2 monographs: Petroglyphs of Onega Lake. Moscow, 2015, Archaeological monuments in the vicinity of Onega Lake petroglyphs (with V.F. Filatova). Moscow, 2015
Description
This paper clarifies the age of petroglyphs found at Lake Onega and the White Sea coast, in the Republic of Karelia, north-west Russia. Based on a detailed analysis of the natural and cultural contexts of the monuments, and on the recent dating of all Stone and Iron Age cultural types in Karelia, the author substantiates a common chronological framework for the Karelian rock art, and attempts to track the main stages of its development. The aim is to better understand the petroglyph era of Karelia, and the nature and dynamics of the region’s coeval natural processes.