ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBJECTS AS ELEMENTS OF INFORMATIONAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The article shows the objective criteria of sacralization of objects of natural and cultural
heritage of Eastern Europe and Southern Siberia, based on the performance of informational function in
ancient human life-support system (as instruments of navigation in space-time). Transformation of functions
of sacral objects from their inception to the beginning of the third millennium, due to the development of
geo-cultural space (changes in technology, socio-cultural paradigm and social and economic conditions). The
stages of the evolution of navigation technologies, selected by the author on the basis of cultural layering of
archaeological objects are reviewed in the article. The carried-out retrospective analysis allows to make the
assumption that improvement of technologies of orientation could be a basis of emergence and development
of Homo sapiens (sapientation): astronomical supervision in horizon observatory develops a system of
ecological thinking; supervision over a shadow of the gnomon tool develops abstract thinking (the abstract
graphic sign is genetically connected with concrete natural process)