Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TURKIYAT ARASTIRMALARI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN TURKOLOGY, sa.39, ss.391-407, 2016 (ESCI)
The people have looked for ways to express their feelings and thoughts since the Paleolithic Age. One of the these ways is rock paintings, which were communication tools of this age and were painted on walls in cave, on shelter and on rocky areas. The people gave place in their lives to a number of rituals in their relationship with nature and in the struggle with nature. The rock paintings, found in everywhere in world, show different characteristics according to the region and culture to which they belong. Emerging at the beginning of the fourth thousand years BC, in the Central Asia and forming stages of nomadic culture, Turkish culture represents a rich culture in terms of rock paintings. The rock paintings founded in the wide region extending from Mongolia to Anatolia, are with regarded to about beliefs, lifestyles, pastoral lifes of Turkish tribes. In these rock painting made with scraping-tattoo-line and painting techniques are mostly depicted horses, cavalry, wild animals, mountain goats, deer and so on. Northeast Anatolia-Doyumlu rock paintings, which are a rich area of Anatolia in terms of rock panels, have a great wealth. Incorporating a lot of compositions as Toy scenes, depictions of people and animal etc Doyumlu Rock Paintings provide very important knowledge about Turkish cultural history along with other rock panels in the region.