Arian migration: new facts and analysis
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2024-5-39-63
Abstract
Aim. To study the processes of formation and migration of the Sayan archaeological complex in the III millennium BC based on Okunev archaeological culture. To identify the influence of Sayan migration to South Asia as a factor in the formation of cultural and ideological processes in the Harappan civilization.
Methodology. A stylistic and typological analysis of images of both statuary and petroglyphs has been carried out as a special type of communication within society, capable of conveying the foundations of an ancient worldview. Comparative typological, comparative cultural and comparative historical methods are used in the work, the method of analysis and synthesis is applied.
Results. It has been established that Okunev migration to the south is a fact that indicates the transfer of their worldview foundations to the environment of the late Harappan population. The innovative processes that are fixed in the glyptics and art of the late Harappa are directly related to the arrival of the Okunev population. The influence of Okunev’s worldview can be identified in the structural correspondences between Okunev’s realities and their reflection in the hymns of the Rigveda, in glyptics and the art of Harappa.
Research implications. The work proves that Sayan migration belongs to the elite type of migration and does not show signs of invasion. In the process of adaptation, the aliens transfer their cultural potential, including language, worldview, rituals and social structure to the local population.
About the Author
L. A. Sokolova
Institute of Archaeology Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Lyudmila A. Sokolova – Cand Sci (History), Researcher,
ul. Dmitriya Ulianova 19, Moscow 19117292
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