Abstract
In the rock art, anthropomorphic characters clad in ritual or national dress, warrior’s or hunter’s costume are not rare, but the degree of detail of such images is different. Therefore, it is important to identify all the clothing elements displayed in petroglyphs for further historical reconstructions. The article examines some anthropomorphic characters in shortened trousers, depicted in the rock art of the Minusinsk Hollow. Such fi gures are made by engraving and punching, and are shown, as a rule, in battle scenes. They relate mainly to the Tesin and Tashtyk epochs. The comparison with other pictorial analogies, including with rock paintings, made it possible to assume that one of the characters found on the rocks of Tepsei is depicted in the “trouser armor”, the same as the knight from Mount Chalpan. By S.V. Pankova’s defi nition, who has singled out three main groups of soldiers in Tashtyk art, non-indigenous population groups were represented this way. One can make a suggestion that they could also fi ght in leather or fur pants common among many Siberian peoples, including Tyssins and Tashtyks, and the preserved organics from the burials (Pazyryk, Oglakhtin materials) demonstrates it. This applies mainly to the fi gures performed by the knockout technique. The analysis of the image sources, the selection of plot and stylistic features allows to expand the characterization of the military affairs of the population inhabited the Minusinsk Hollow during the era of great change, when in the rock art there is a surge of interest to the battle themes refl ecting the struggle of the local population with foreigner invaders.
Keywords
Archaeology, Prehistory, rock art, Minusinsk Hollow, images of warriors
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