On the origin of the animal style in the Kazakh steppe

The Scythian-Saka animal style, its bizarre, phantasmagoric images and their territorial distribution in syn-chronous monuments on the vast territory of the Eurasian continent are clear evidence of the developed trans-continental visual, and in fact, symbolic and figurative communications of the Early nomads during this peri-od. The phenomenon of the origin of this style and its geographical distribution, the decoding of images and communicative messages obviously finds its origins in Kazakh figurative monuments, clearly demonstrating its continuity, originality and origins in the local pictorial traditions of the Bronze Age.