Paper short abstract:

I shall focus on the interaction between external/physical landscape and the inner world of human beings in terms of attention and imagination. The ways will be explored, in which attractive rock features within prehistoric activity areas could be percieved by individuals as well as on the social level.

Paper long abstract:

Some prehistoric activity areas include unusual, attractive rock features, which provoke the question about their role in the past living culture. In traditional cultures they are often percieved as (super-)natural living beings or their products, which can be called pseudoartefacts. When thinking about socially shared symbolic significance of such rocks, we can focus, among other things, on the ways in which they atracted attention, and came into contact and interaction with the consciousness of individuals . Primarily, I shall pay atention to visual imagination, inspired and stimulated by encountering atractive rock feature. Case study involved a menhir-shaped rock feature, situated within a recently discovered archaeological site, where Bronze Age bronze artefacts and rock-crystal fragment were deposited. There was a visual imagination survey realized, that brougth a set of drawings (graphical externalizations of inner images). Surprisingly, in a wide range of original drawings and interpretations, there can be found several structural aspects.