Monumental Archaeology in the Mongolian Altai

Intention, Memory, Myth

Esther Jacobson-Tepfer

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Brill
16 February 2023

History of art: pre-history; Archaeology

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies

The stone monuments of Mongolia’s Altai Mountains trace the web of ancient cultures across that remote land. This study breaks new ground by seeking their cultural significance from within their physical locations and viewsheds.

It is the first study to join the mute stone monuments to the vivid petroglyphic rock art of that region. In that and in the examination of a monument’s individualizing details, I seek to recover the impulse of original intention, the way in which monument and location fix cultural memory, and the way in which memory finally gives way to the cultural development of myth.

By: Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 30
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 617g
ISBN: 9789004535213
ISBN 10: 9004535217
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 16 February 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, Ph.D. (1970), University of Chicago, is Kerns Professor Emeritus, University of Oregon. She has published over ten books on the ancient pre-nomadic world of Siberia and Mongolia, including her first, The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia (Brill, 1993).