The sea on the rocks. Sailing in the rock art of Gobustan (original) (raw)

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

2016

espanolGobustan, que significa la tierra de los rios secos, presenta la mayor concentracion de restos arqueologicos y de arte rupestre en toda la region . Se localiza entre las laderas sudorientales del gran Caucaso y el mar Caspio, a 60 km al sur de Baku. El paisaje cultural y de arte rupestre de Gobustan, que encarna la historia de la humanidad en Eurasia desde el Paleolitico Superior hasta la Edad Media, es un enclave de gran significacion para reconstruir las raices de la civilizacion en los contextos geo-culturales europeos y asiaticos. Lo mas caracteristico de este lugar son sus diferentes secuencias de arte rupestre. EnglishGobustan, which means the �land of dry riverbed�, certainly displays the major concentration of rock art and archeological traces in the whole region. It is located between the south-eastern outcrops of the Greater Caucasus Range and the Caspian Sea, some 60 km south from Baku. The Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, which embodies Eurasian human history...

Portrayal of a sea in a semiarid environment: Boat engravings in Böyük Daş, Gobustan

Boat engravings represent one of the most recurrent and characteristic themes in Gobustan rock art. From a stylistic point of view informed by preliminary studies, it seems that boat figures have been engraved over a long span of time, suggesting the importance of the aquatic environment of the past. Today Gobustan is a semi-desert region facing the Caspian Sea, which has shaped the area during the millennia. Petroglyphs and transgression and regression movements of the sea have deeply influenced the landscape of Gobustan. Therefore the studied different boat engravings in Böyük Daş, one of the five rock art sites in Gobustan, for a deeper understanding and the kinds of relationship that existed between humans, sea-landscapes and the engraved figures.