MILESTONES OF SPRITUAL EVOLUTION IN PREHISTORIC

The settling of the European taiga and tundra in the final Pleistocene was indeed something of a heroic endeavour. Man’s penetration into the North was an historic event that triggered a highly dy-namic ideological process. This is also reflected in Karelian petroglyphs, which form the easternmost p...

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Main Authors: Mare Kõiva, Andres Kuperjanov, Väino Poikalainen, Enn Ernits, Abram D. Stoliar
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.544.9320
http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol18/treasure.pdf
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Summary:The settling of the European taiga and tundra in the final Pleistocene was indeed something of a heroic endeavour. Man’s penetration into the North was an historic event that triggered a highly dy-namic ideological process. This is also reflected in Karelian petroglyphs, which form the easternmost portion of the Fennoscandic network of rock art sites (Figure 1).