The Phenomenon of the Skull Masks of the Lower Amur Petroglyphs
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Abstract
In the Lower Amur basin, there are numerous monuments of rock art. They are characterized by the \npredominance of skull masks. The semantic content of these artifacts allows to identify them as the \nmain attributes of the rituals of the secret male unions. At the end of the Stone Age and the early Metal \nAge, the power of men and patrilineal kinship begin to prevail. The ancient model of the world was \nchanged. The importance of the underground world and inevitability of death was dominating in the \nminds of the people. Authority was claimed through rituals with human sacrifices and cannibalism. \nThe leader of the ritual was wearing a skull-type radiant mask. It was also drawn on the stones as \nthe accumulation of power of the spirit-man-eater and called the “pile of cannibal”. These facts are \nalso observed in the rituals, folklore and petroglyphs of the Indians in Canada and North America. \nThe theme of cannibalism is also present in the myths of the Amur indigenous peoples. The article \ndescribes the concept of the ideogram the “pile of cannibal” in the Lower Amur petroglyphs. The \nideogram is presented as a three-part model of the world. The paper discusses the ideogram the “pile \nof cannibal” of Sikachi-Alyan and Sheremetyevo. This ideology and rituals could have been brought \nto America by the migrants from the Amur River basin
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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