ZOOMORPHIC PATTERNS ON CERAMICS AND CARPETS

Abstract

In the Neolithic era, there have been fundamental changes in the life of mankind. The new economic life made it possible to produce an excess product that required special storage. To make and store products, people invented clay vessels, which are now called the "alphabet of archaeology" in the scientific world. Indeed, ceramics, as well as stone and bone products’ preservation, shape and ornaments give extensive information on household, economic life and world view of human society. We also receive rich information from ornaments on rarely preserved carpets. Ornaments are essentially divided into the following groups: geometric, vegetative, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic. There are images of birds, horses, deer, scorpions, rams, goats and fish, as well as mythical images - dragons and griffins. Each image had its own semantics, and some were essentially polysemantic.