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🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian to Magdalenian) · Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers (Eastern Gravettian / South Ural Epipalaeolithic)
Urals Palaeolithic painted cave with 195 mammoth-horse figures 36–14 ka, easternmost Old World cave art.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Medieval (18 ka BCE – 15th c. CE) · Upper Palaeolithic South Ural (Mal'ta-related) with Mesolithic and Iron Age ritual visitors
South Ural ice cave with Venus-mammoth charcoal paintings 14 ka and red dot calendar.
