Primitive art by artists in Siypantosh: One of the unique cultural monuments in the world
Asror Allayarov
Editor-in-chief
of Inside Kashkadarya magazine in Uzbekistan
IMN
Representative for Uzbekistan
The primitive artist, who lived in the area at the time, created these paintings using red and brown “ochre” paint made by mixing red soil with animal fat. Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan is one of the most ancient cultural cradles in Central Asia. There is a monument called Siypantosh in the village of Quruqsay, located in the Gissar mountain range in the Chirakchi district of the region.
The ancient finds in it are among the remarkable monuments that prove the emergence of Homo sapiens (the wise man) and the emergence of the earliest colorful works of art created by them.The name of the monument Siypantosh dates back to the Middle Ages. The history of the monument dates back to the last stages of the Paleolithic period - the Late Paleolithic.
Primitive people
painted their bodies in seasonal colours
For thousands of years, snow and rainwater that flowed between the quartz rocks eroded the large one, forming a cave shape, turning the walls and floor into a flat and smooth area. It was on these large stones (there were 3 of them in total) that a plane was formed for painting, in which the first primitive the artist mixed red soil with animal fat and prepared a reddish and brown “ochre” paint.The preparation of red ochre colours is common in the culture of the Paleolithic period in human history. For example, primitive people painted their bodies with ochre paint following the seasons of nature. The body temperature of people kept the same painted in ochre. Ethnographers have found that even in hunting, the main means of subsistence of the primitive community, men painted their bodies in the above colours in order not to frighten the animals with their scents, to get closer to them.
Is the hand on the
picture belongs to a woman?
It
was this ochre colour technology that led to the creation and emergence of the
first colour-image works. The oldest of the many colourful paintings on
Siypantosh is the drawing of the "human hand." The primitive artist
made ochre and painted his or her hand on the stones. This hand of human might
belongs to a woman, which is proved by the fact that women’s fingers are
anatomically longer and thinner than men’s. The difference between the human
fingers is related to household chores, while in the Paleolithic period,
according to a long-standing matriarchal system, males were tasked with hunting
to feed tribal members, while females in the family were involved in
child-rearing and food preparation.
As
we stand among the large boulders and look at the images, we see that at the
very centre of them is an image of a bull or an ancient ungulate belonging to a
large ungulate species, designed in a very realistic style.
Semantically,
the image of ancient bulls is a symbol of "strength". The depiction
of bulls indicates that the first religious views were formed in primitive
society. For example, in Zoroastrianism, which dates back to 3000 BC, the Bull
is said to belong to the category of divine animals, which is a symbol of the
patron saint of power and might.
Lunar and solar
calendars were used
The
Siypantosh monument has been a sacred place for many centuries for the
primitive tribes living in the Quruqsay and Ayoqchisay oases. More than 26 paintings
from the Late Paleolithic period have been interpreted differently by scholars.
In particular, 29 short lines are considered to be the days of the month, and
the division of the round shape into four parts is considered to be "four
seasons of the year" or "calendar of the year", "lunar or
solar calendar". The geometric images in the monument are evidence of the
development of human thought at that time.
Despite
the different interpretations of the colour images on the Siypantosh monument,
they are recognized by scholars as to the oldest works of art in Central Asia.
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