The Intercultural relations between Old Europe and Old Armenia. The authors generalized the results of the studies, which cover the twentyyear period within the framework of the “KareDaran - ArkaLer” project (iatp.am/ara) on the accumulation, systematization, classification, comparison and estimation of the Armenian rock art. As a result the typical signs and symbols extracted from the rock arts database (7000-6000 B.C., Gegam, Aparan, Vardenis and Syunik mountains) are given in table 1 in the comparison with the symbols of the Vincha culture (6000-5000 B.C., Old Europe). The signs of the Old Europe and Old Armenia are represented by three groups: the symbols, dated by early period in the development of Vincha culture, then by symbols general for all periods and finally others symbols. Analysis of the signs of each group (table 1) individually and as a whole shows that Vincha symbols and the typical Old Armenian rock art symbols (archetypes of the signs) not only are similar, but also are identical. Moreover, the level of identity is above in earlier symbols. Complete (100%) identity was observed for 28 symbols of Vincha early period, 90% - for 37 general symbols of Vincha and of about 80% - for another 142 symbols of Vincha. Thus, general conclusion based on the results of studies (table 1) is single-valued - the culture of the Old Armenia rock art symbols underlies on the origin of Vincha signs culture. This striking discovery convincingly testifies o existence of the earliest network of the intercultural communication of Old Europe (Starchevo and Vincha, 6000-5000 B.C.) and Old Armenia (7000-6000 B.C.). The essential conclusion can be presented as follows: Old Armenia was most intimately connected with other cultural centers contemporary to it peace. In the sixth millennium B.C. already there were a whole series of the cultural centers, and not completely isolated from each other, they were connected together as with the constants by relations, so by interaction of ideas and knowledge. In the sphere of these relations entered also the cultural tribes and peoples, which populated into those centuries Old Europe and Asia, both sides of the Caucasian and Old Armenia regions. XXIII Valcamonica Symposium Making history of prehistory, the role of rock art 28 October - 2 November 2009, Capo di Ponte - Valcamonica, Italy. Vahanyan Vahan, Ph. D. student, Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, Vahanyan Grigori, Prof. of the Russian-Armenian State University and Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, founder of the Armenian Rock Art research Center “KareDaran” Typical symbols of the Old Armenia rock art^ (7000-6000 B.C.) in the comparison with the symbols of the Vincha culture ^^ (6000-5000 B.C.)
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