CONCEPTS OF ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PREHISTORIC ART IN THE STUDIES OF THE SECOND HALF OF ХХ th AND ХХІ st. CENTURY

Abstract

A comparative analysis of two opposite points of view on the origin and development of prehistoric art was
made, namely: theories by Henri Breuil, Abram Stoliar and other, that fit into the framework of cultural materialism and argue, that art originated from the practical needs of everyday life, and concepts by Mykolay Chmyhov, Valeriy Yurkovets, Y. Shylov Alexander Gurshtein, M. Hall and other, that relate the origin and development of art with the religious need to resort to supernatural power, and prove, that beliefs and cults, prevailing in different parts of the ancient ecumene in certain periods, find a peculiar reflection in the characteristics of zodiac signs, dominant in those periods (in which for 2150 years there is a point of equinox).