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Examination of the Structural Development and the Spiritual Cultural Evolution of Humanity Through Mammoths

Year 2024, Volume: 11 Issue: 6, 4413 - 4437, 07.02.2025

Abstract

In architectural inferences for archaeological research, it is of great importance that physical evidence is correlated and interpreted through analogy. From this perspective, there is evidence that many examples of huts that may be related to each other and to the mammoth skeletal structure have been built in the Old and New World since prehistoric times. The structure of the mammoth trunk cage may have been a model for the load-bearing system of tent-type huts and roofs, which were thought to have been made with tree branches since ancient times. In early people, situations were often observed where faith and building activities fed and intertwined with each other. There are also some finds and interpretations in the literature that mammoths are accepted as a ritualistic idol. The interaction of construction and belief activities in human history can also be interpreted through the profound impact of mammoths on human cultural evolution.

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Examination of the Structural Development and the Spiritual Cultural Evolution of Humanity Through Mammoths

Year 2024, Volume: 11 Issue: 6, 4413 - 4437, 07.02.2025

Abstract

In architectural inferences for archaeological research, it is of great importance that physical evidence is correlated and interpreted through analogy. From this perspective, there is evidence that many examples of huts that may be related to each other and to the mammoth skeletal structure have been built in the Old and New World since prehistoric times. The structure of the mammoth trunk cage may have been a model for the load-bearing system of tent-type huts and roofs, which were thought to have been made with tree branches since ancient times. In early people, situations were often observed where faith and building activities fed and intertwined with each other. There are also some finds and interpretations in the literature that mammoths are accepted as a ritualistic idol. The interaction of construction and belief activities in human history can also be interpreted through the profound impact of mammoths on human cultural evolution.

References

  • Adovasio, J. M. (1997) in Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile. ed. Dillehay, T. D. (Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC., 221-228.
  • Agam, A. & Barkai R. (2018) Elephant and Mammoth Hunting during the Paleolithic: A Review of the Relevant Archaeological. Ethnographic and Ethno-Historical Records. Quaternary 1 (1), 3. Armitage, P. (1992). Religious ideology among the Innu of eastern Quebec and Labrador. Religiologiques, 6 (4), 63-110
  • Arslantaş, Y. (2014) Shelter in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic (Epi-Paleotic) Ages. Fırat University Journal of Social Sciences, 24 (2), 319-344 (in Turkish).
  • Aurenche, O. (1981). La Maison Orientale: l’Architecture du Proche Orient Ancien des Origines au Milieu du Quatrième Millénaire. Guenthner.
  • Bailey, R. C. (1991). The Behavioral Ecology of Efe Pygmy Men in the Ituri Forest, Zaire, Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology. University of Michigan.
  • Bar-Yosef, O. & Alon, D. (1988). Nahal Hemar cave: the excavations. Atiqot, 15, 31-43.
  • Barrett, S. A. (1916). in Pomo Buildings (Bryan, Washington, DC), p. 10.
  • Black, J. (ed.) (2005). World History Atlas. 2d ed. Dorling Kindersley.
  • Braidwood R. J. (1995). Tarih Öncesi İnsan. (Çev. B.Altınok), İstanbul, 1995.
  • Braun, I. M., Palombo, M. R. (2012). Mammuthus primigenius in the cave and portable art: An overview with a short account on the elephant fossil record in Southern Europe during the last glacial. Quat. Int., 276, 61–76.
  • Brown, L. A., & Kitty F. E. (2008). Negotiations with the Animate Forest: Hunting Shrines in the Guatemalan Highlands. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 15, 300–337.
  • Brugère, A. (2014). Not one but two mammoth hunting strategies in the Gravettian of the Pavlov Hills area (southern Moravia). Quaternary international, 337, 80-89.
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Archaeology (Other), Religious Studies (Other)
Journal Section Articles
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Varol Koç 0000-0003-4810-3845

Early Pub Date January 9, 2025
Publication Date February 7, 2025
Submission Date July 28, 2024
Acceptance Date January 9, 2025
Published in Issue Year 2024 Volume: 11 Issue: 6

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APA Koç, V. (2025). Examination of the Structural Development and the Spiritual Cultural Evolution of Humanity Through Mammoths. Akademik Tarih Ve Düşünce Dergisi, 11(6), 4413-4437.

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