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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Ethno review</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Ethno review</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Этнографическое обозрение</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-5415</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-6274</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">672520</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/S0869541524030094</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">BRCAKA</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Research Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи и материалы</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Eurasian back-migration: traces in mythology?</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Обратная миграция в Африку: след в мифологии?</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6001-7339</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Berezkin</surname><given-names>Yuri E.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Березкин</surname><given-names>Юрий Евгеньевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><bio><p>д. и. н., заведующий отделом этнографии Америки</p></bio><email>berezkin1@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Музей антропологии и этнографии им. Петра Великого (Кунсткамера) РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-09-04" publication-format="electronic"><day>04</day><month>09</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><issue>3</issue><fpage>157</fpage><lpage>179</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-02-27"><day>27</day><month>02</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/0869-5415/article/view/672520">https://journals.eco-vector.com/0869-5415/article/view/672520</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The author examines the world distribution of mythological motifs peculiar for Northeast Africa but absent in other parts of this continent. The corresponding narratives describe the events of the time of creation, objects and beings localized at the ultimate limits of the human world as well as episodes of the journeys of heroes to these limits. The motifs in question are absent in Central Asia and Siberia but found across Western, South and Southeast Asia, in Oceania and across the New World. Considering such distribution, these stories probably appeared at the early stages of the peopling of the oikumene (definitely before the peopling of the New World) and were brought to Africa by the populations engaged into the Eurasian back-migrations that were going since the Terminal Pleistocene and possibly earlier.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В статье рассматривается мировое распределение нескольких мифологических мотивов, которые в Африке встречаются лишь на северо-востоке. В соответствующих повествованиях описываются времена первопредков либо объекты и существа, находящиеся у пределов нашего мира, а также странствия героев к этим пределам. Вне Африки данные мотивы отсутствуют в Центральной Азии и Сибири, но встречаются на западе, юге и юго-востоке Евразии, в Океании и в Новом Свете. Учитывая такое распределение, можно предположить, что подобные эпизоды и образы появились на ранних этапах заселения ойкумены (безусловно, до начала освоения Нового Света) и были перенесены в Африку в ходе обратных миграций, начавшихся с финального плейстоцена и, возможно, раньше. Речь, скорее всего, идет об остатках ранней мифологии, сохранившихся на окраинах ойкумены.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>African mythology</kwd><kwd>comparative mythology</kwd><kwd>traditional cosmology</kwd><kwd>Eurasian back-migration</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>мифология Африки</kwd><kwd>сравнительная мифология</kwd><kwd>традиционная космология</kwd><kwd>обратная миграция в Африку</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Alexandrova, E.V. 2019. “Podzemnye karliki” v Egipte: mezhdu istoriei i mifom [“Underworld Dwarfs” in Egypt: Between History and Myth]. Shagi/Steps 5 (2): 175–187. https://doi.org/10.22394/2412–9410–2019–5–2–175–187</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Александрова Е.В. “Подземные карлики” в Египте: между историей и мифом // Шаги/Steps. 2019. Т. 5 (2). 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