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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">nsc</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Archaeology, Ethnology &amp; Anthropology of Eurasia</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1563-0110</issn><publisher><publisher-name>IAET SB RAS</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17746/1563-0110.2025.53.2.063-069</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">nsc-2189</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ЭПОХА ПАЛЕОМЕТАЛЛА</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>On the Identification of Anonymous Artists in Rock Art</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7142-3188</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Sevostyanov</surname><given-names>D. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Sevostyanov D.A., Associate Professor</p><p>Krasny pr. 52, Novosibirsk, 630091</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">dmitry.sevostyanov1964@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3997-4702</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Pankina</surname><given-names>A. I.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Pankina A.I., Junior Researcher</p><p>Pushkinskaya 89, Vladivostok, 690001</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">pankina1995b@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Novosibirsk State Medical University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography&#13;
of the Peoples of the Far East, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>04</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>53</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>63</fpage><lpage>69</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Sevostyanov D.A., Pankina A.I., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Sevostyanov D.A., Pankina A.I.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Sevostyanov D.A., Pankina A.I.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/2189">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/2189</self-uri><abstract><p>This article addresses the assessment of anonymous artistry in rock art—something basically different from the attribution of later paintings, where extra-artistic information may help to attribute the work to a specific artist. No such information is normally available in the case of rock art. The most one can expect in that case is to reveal pictures by one and the same creator, or by his imitators. In this study, we used the method of Giovanni Morelli, who proposed to assess artistry on the basis of secondary details reproduced unconsciously. Two examples of such details are discussed in detail. One concerns structural elements such as fossa, fossula, foveola, insecta, and fissura, detected by traceological analysis of petroglyphs associated with the Tagar culture of Khakassia. Their occurrence and orientation provide clues as to individual motility and thereby to their creators, albeit anonymous. The second example concerns diagnostic features of the large marine mammals depicted in the petroglyphs of the Ulsan group, South Korea (Bangudae and Cheonjeon-ri). Animals represented in those petroglyphs can be diagnosed at the species level, and the way they are represented enables us to decide whether the artist himself observed them or whether he merely imitated someone else’s mannerisms. </p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Petroglyphs</kwd><kwd>anonymous attribution</kwd><kwd>traceological method</kwd><kwd>structural elements of rock art</kwd><kwd>Tagar culture</kwd><kwd>Bangudae rock art</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Bereznitsky S.V. 2021 Sakralniye landshafty i etnokulturniye proyektsii korennykh narodov amuro-sakhalinskogo regiona. Oikumena: Regionovedcheskiye issledovaniya, No. 3: 24–29.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Bereznitsky S.V. 2021 Sakralniye landshafty i etnokulturniye proyektsii korennykh narodov amuro-sakhalinskogo regiona. 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