Archaeology and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia
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1. RA_PETR_TG_0335 RA_PETR_TG_0335 animals Fine running animals, including deer, argali, ibex, wolf, on grey sloping surface. Darkened patina.
2. RA_PETR_TG_0336 RA_PETR_TG_0336 hunting scenes; ibex; hunters Hunter striding right, holding long bow and aiming at an ibex. Broken bedrock, pitted and scraped surface.
3. RA_PETR_TG_0337 RA_PETR_TG_0337 bulls Small bull, head down, with ball tail.
4. RA_PETR_TG_0338 RA_PETR_TG_0338 archers Archer walking and shooting to the right. From his waist hangs a long daluur. Note variation in re-patination; this and the figure type indicate the probable date.
5. RA_PETR_TG_0339 RA_PETR_TG_0339 deer; predation scenes Deer or elk suckling her young and confronted by a predator (dog?). Crushed hardened rind has fallen out in several places, revealing the dark grey matrix.
6. RA_PETR_TG_0340 RA_PETR_TG_0340 animals; figures Small figure in upper left, several large animals with large round tails.
7. RA_PETR_TG_0341 RA_PETR_TG_0341 herding scenes; riders; cattle; yaks Split boulder with remains of a large scene of the herding of cattle. This composition is an important indication of an early (late Bronze Age) use of riding for herding.
8. RA_PETR_TG_0342 RA_PETR_TG_0342 herding scenes; riders; yaks Main surviving section of large herding scene with bull and horse riders. Important early indication of the use of riding for herding.
9. RA_PETR_TG_0343 RA_PETR_TG_0343 herding scenes; riders Detail of main section of herding scene with rider behind large bull or yak.
10. RA_PETR_TG_0344 RA_PETR_TG_0344 herding scenes; riders Detail of main section of herding scene with yak rider and large yaks.
11. RA_PETR_TG_0345 RA_PETR_TG_0345 herding scenes; yaks; birthing women Grey boulder with herding scene: three yak led by a single fragmentary figure, possibly a birthing woman.
12. RA_PETR_TG_0346 RA_PETR_TG_0346 elk Large female elk, undecipherable element to the right.
13. RA_PETR_TG_0347 RA_PETR_TG_0347 figures Figure seen partly in profile, partly from the front, wearing belted jacket of an Early Nomad. Much of the crushed hardened rind has fallen out, revealing the stone's dark grey matrix.
14. RA_PETR_TG_0348 RA_PETR_TG_0348 animals Humorous, long-eared, long-tailed animal running up vertical surface.
15. RA_PETR_TG_0349 RA_PETR_TG_0349 ibex Pair of ibex, possibly male (right) and female (left), carefully pecked on a horizontal surface.
16. RA_PETR_TG_0350 RA_PETR_TG_0350 deer; elk Arzhan-style deer with curious mineralization in area of chest around stone fracture. Its antlers are considerably lighter in tone: added later? Compare the variation in re-patination on this figure with...
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