The Beast-Patterns Of The Bronze Age In The Northern Grassland

At about2000th century BC, the people who live in the northern part of the Eurasian Steppe created the grassland-bronze culture which included so many kinds. Among them, being a kind of art heritage, the animal patterns become a unique part of the culture of the grassland bronze ware. The animal-pattern bronze wares can show various kinds of animals, and it can show the scene of the life on the grassland at that time with various moulds. Deer, as a main member of all the grassland-animals, has been used into making bronze wares by ancients. The pattern of manifestation in making this kind of bronze has become an independent school in animal-pattern bronze wares.Actually, for the ancients of the Eurasian Steppe, the way to describe deer is not only through bronze but many other ways. There is a kind of thing that called "deer-stone", which is discovered at about2000th-6th century BC. It looks like monuments and it is famous for its deer-pattern. Up to now, there are thousands of deer-stone have been discovered. To some extent, there are some similarities of the showing of deer-pattern in bronze wares and deer-stone. On one hand, both of them reflect the living condition and aesthetic consciousness of the ancients. On another hand, they both stand for a typical case of ancient-grassland art. So when we put these two kinds of arts in today at the same time, the compare, or even the analysis is a new way to carding the ancient-grassland art.