Abstract

Author:
Hongyan Zhuang

Doi: 10.7508/jra.01.2023.50.56

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The Daxinganling, situated in northeastern China, is the watershed between the Inner Mongolia Plateau and the Northeast Plain. In the northern region of the Daxinganling, numerous red-painted rock arts have been discovered since the turn of the 21st century. Through more than a decade of investigation on the rock arts of the Daxinganling, it has been determined that these rock arts exhibit distinctive regional cultural characteristics. On the basis of multiple field investigations and the exhaustive use of archaeological and anthropological data, a systematic analysis has been conducted to synthesize the cultural characteristics of the Daxinganling rock arts in this paper. The discussion also included rock arts’ cultural functions and systematic attribution. The rock arts in the Daxinganling should be a component of the northern woodland hunting cultural system, it was determined.

KEYWORDS:
Daxinganling, Rock Arts, Function, System