Pásztor Emília (szerk.): A fény régészete. A természetes fény szerepe az őskori ember életében - Bajai dolgozatok 20. (Baja, 2017)
Andrzej Rozwadowski: Utazás a Naphoz. Égi szimbólumok a sámánizmusban és a szibériai, valamint a közép-ázsiai sziklarajzokon
Siberia and Central Asia are the regions where shamanism is well documented historically as well as ethnographically. Most spectacular data concerns Siberia, where local museums have extensive collections of the shamanic material culture, dated mostly to nineteenth and twentieth centuries (e.g. Gorbacheva and Solov'eva 2006). Central Asia appears less spectacular in this context, as shamanism only occurs there in syncretic form, being mixed with other religious beliefs and practices, mostly islam (Zarcone and Hobart 2013). Thorough research shows, however, that in pre-lslamic times shamanism also played an important role in Central Asia (Basilov 1992). In addition to the museums' treasure, however, evidence of shamanism can also be found among natural landscapes in the form of rock art, i.e. images engraved, pecked or painted on natural surfaces of rocks. Ancient images on rocks have been created through millennia. The oldest rock art in Siberia Hakasz sámánnő dobbal. A 20. század elején készült fotó N. M. Martianov nyomán. Minuszinszk, Regionális Múzeum. Khakas shaman with drum, photograph taken at beginning of twentieth century. Archive of the Minusinsk Regional Museum named after N. M. Martianov. 151 ■
