Chizhevsky A.A., Shatalov V.A.

Key words: Ananyino art, bits, equine and equstrian images, dynamic and static poses, style.
The authors analyze the evolution of equestrian and equine imagery in Ananyino art on the basis of the horn bit found in burial 82 at the Lugoskoy cemetery, which belongs to the Ananyino cultural and historical area and dates to the 6th c. BC. The analysis has revealed a specific feature of Ananyino equine images, which depict only the head of the horse and not the body, a tradition which is probably related to the antiquities of the south of Eastern Europe. The equstrian image has no analogies and must have evolved in the Ananyino cultural and historical area. Equine images underwent certain changes during the transition from the 6th to the 5th cc. BC. The reason for that was the changed vector of cultural relations, which shifted from the south to the east of Eurasia. The equestrian image from Glyadenovskoye site is a typical Late Ananyino artifact. Further evolution of equestrian and equine images in the Volga-Kama region already belongs to Glyadenovskoye time, 2nd c. BC – 3d c. AD, when the flowing lines typical of Ananyino art were replaced by angular ones.