Obiettivo Traditionally the reconstruction of prehistoric cultures is mainly understood as retrieving material culture by means of archaeological investigations. The approach applied within the project allows to reconstruct ancient elements of spiritual culture that as a rule do not leave material traces, and to study their dynamics. Suggested methodology is based on comparative analysis of world mythological traditions and takes into consideration genetic, linguistic, and archaeological data on prehistoric human migrations.The goal of the project is to identify the Eurasian mythological motif complexes that existed before the development of literary culture and world religions. For this purpose mythological motifs which belong to different mythological traditions of Eurasia, will be compiled into electronic database and a statistical analysis of their areal distribution will be undertaken. It allows to reveal regularities in areal distribution of sets of motifs and to accomplish a large-scale mapping of selected motifs.Then the revealed distribution of mythological motif complexes will be compared with areal distribution of genetic lineages in Eurasia in order to identify their connection with already known migration waves detected by genetic, linguistic and archaeological methods. Some of more ancient Eurasian motifs that were brought to the New World with the earliest migration waves have been already revealed by means of systematic comparison of Eurasian and New World mythologies made on the basis of the electronic Catalogue of Mythological Motifs of the New World. In the framework of the proposed project, this Catalogue will be complemented by data from mythological traditions of Europe, Western, Central and Southern Asia.The data will be presented both in textual and coded forms which makes it possible to perform formal statistical analysis. Results of comparative analysis will be verified with genetic, linguistic, and archaeological data on ancient contacts and migrations (among other things the verification allows to exclude later admixtures). The project participants are experienced in comparative mythology and formal statistical analysis of narratives (Dr.Walter Dr.Rangochev and NIS teams). Unique mythological materials and databases belonging to each team will be unified in the consortium. One of the worldwide largest databases of Eurasian genetic lineages created by Dr.Villems team will be used in the project framework.The identification of large-scale areal trends in the distribution of mythological motifs in conjunction with the data on genetic relations between studied human groups will help to reconstruct some elements of cultural prehistory of Eurasia, to date tentatively the formation of some particular mythological motifs and their complexes, and to localize possible areas of their origin, as well as to trace main routes of their dissemination within Eurasia, thus contributing to the general study of Eurasian prehistory. Parole chiave Anthropology & Ethnography Cultural & Social Anthropology Human Genetics Programma(i) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Argomento(i) Data not available Invito a presentare proposte Data not available Meccanismo di finanziamento Data not available Coordinatore INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo ACAD. G. BONTCHEV BLVD., 8 SOFIA Bulgaria Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (7) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto ESTONIAN BIOCENTRE Estonia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo RIIA, 23 TARTU Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES OF RAS (IVRAN) Russia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo ROZHDESTVENKA STREET, 12 MOSCOW Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato INSTITUTE OF THE HUMANITIES Tagikistan Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo BEKHZOD, 2/41 DUSHANBE Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY (KUNSTKAMMER) Russia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo UNIVERSITETSKAYA NAB., 3 ST.PETERSBURG Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR HUMANITIES Russia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo MIUSSKAJA SQ., 6 MOSCOW Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato UDMURT STATE UNIVERSITY Russia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo UNIVERSITETSKYA, 1/6 IZHEVSK Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato UNIVERSITÉ STENDHAL DE GRENOBLE III Francia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo AVENUE CENTRALE, 1180 GRENOBLE Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato
