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Places tagged “afanasievo”

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🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art

Kalbak-Tash II — Yaloman Chuya Bluff Petroglyphs

Neolithic to Turkic · Afanasievo, Andronovo, Scythian-Pazyryk, Turkic

Yaloman Chuya bluff 8 km north of Kalbak-Tash with 3000 petroglyphs, Afanasievo Deer Mother and tamga alley.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art

Tsagaan Salaa Central Panel

Upper Palaeolithic to Early Bronze · Palaeolithic Kalgutinsky, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Okunev

Mid-valley of Tsagaan Salaa with Late Pleistocene bulls under Bronze elk on same boulders.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art

Khoit Tsenkher South Overhang

Palaeolithic to Early Bronze · Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Okunev

South overhang 180 m south of cave with Afanasievo exterior petroglyphs on talus.