Shadowsot
Ephemeral Spectre
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Yeahp. From hunting is the expectation. But it's possible early attempts at domestication could have been carried out. We wouldn't have evidence of it though, there's a delay between the start of domestication and effects we can see showing up.I thought animal bones (geese, deer, goat) were found at the site?
Of course, at the same time you can look for evidence of side effects of living around or with animals. That's where finding remains would help, but so far none have been found.
Possibly, but it's worthwhile to be hesitant to ascribe what we'd expect to see in terms of meanings on a culture so far removed from ours.Many of the animal depictions however are not of animals traditionally associated with husbandry (scorpion, vulture, lizard, fox, big-toothed cat). As several depictions seem to show the animals in aggressive pose, with teeth bared, could they have been intended as a canis canem style warning to stay away?
It's the reasonable assumption, but it could also have meaning in terms of hunting or shamanistic type power. Or related to clan imagery and associations. Or something else symbolic.
Some of the motifs invoke elements seen in sky burials still carried out by Zoroastrians, and are in the same general area. But that could be coincidence. It would help explain why we have no remains, but so does simple time and decay.
Not that I'm at all any sort of authority on the site.