Abstract

Author:
Yilan Zhu

Doi: 10.7508/jra.01.2025.56.62

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Baicha River Basin is the earliest area in which ancient rock art were discovered in Western Liaohe region of China. Rock art were discovered one after another from 1984 to 2022. However, the basic historical materials of human-shaped rock art have not been systematically sorted out. Based on the historical data of human-faced rock art in two papers and five monographs, 18 rock art and 26 human-faced images from the Baicha River Basin were selected and utilized to decode explicit cultural memes according to Cultural Textual Theory, encompassing 5 environmental attributes and 6 morphological features. The 26 images alongside the Baicha River are mainly distributed in 5 places such as Shanqian Village and Dahelong Village of Wanheyong Town in Keshiketeng Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. 65.4% of humanface images are distributed in the left bank of Baicha River. 69.2% of human-face images are less than 10 meters from the ground. And 65.4% of human-face images are less than 350 meters from Baicha River. 92.3% of the images with eyes are the key expression content. 80.7% of them have no beard, 76.9% have cheeks, 61.5% have headdress, 61.5% have mouth and 57.6% have nose.

KEYWORDS
The Human-Faced Images of Ancient Rock Art, Cultural Textual Theory, The Cultural Memes Identification, TXT Analysis, The Baicha River Basin