🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Helan Mountains Suyukou South Rock Art
Early Bronze to Yuan · Qiang, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Mongol (Helan corridor pastoralists)
South Suyukou gully 4 km south of Helankou with 600 shamanic mask petroglyphs.
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🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Mongol (Xixia 1038–1227 peak) · Northern nomads (Proto-Mongolic, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xixia Tangut, Mongol)
Helan southernmost Huaishan 800 ibex and shaman faces on Yellow River Tengger bend, Bronze–Xixia patina.
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Bronze Age to Medieval · Xiongnu, Xianbei, Dangxiang Tangut, Mongol
Helankou south branch with 312 panels, Western Xia sun masks and tiger-bharal frieze, 1000 BCE–1200 CE.
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Early Bronze to Yuan · Qiang, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Mongol (Helan corridor pastoralists)
South Suyukou gully 4 km south of Helankou with 600 shamanic mask petroglyphs.
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Neolithic to Medieval Chinese (Majiayao to Western Xia) · Northern Neolithic, Ordos Bronze, Xiongnu and Tangut
Ningxia southern Helan fringe cliffs with 1200 images Neolithic to Xixia, Ordos interface.
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Early Bronze to Western Xia (Tangut) · Zhukaigou, Ordos, Han, Western Xia (Tangut)
Zhongwei Huaishan central terrace with naturalistic ibex and Western Xia inscriptions.
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Neolithic to Xixia (~4000 BCE – 1200 CE) · North Chinese pastoral–agricultural; Xiongnu, Xianbei, Tangut
20-km sandstone rift on the Helan fault scarp preserving over 10,000 petroglyphs from 6 major phases: masked faces 4 ka, northern hunter reindeer, Zhou chariots, Xiongnu horse archers and Tangut…
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Spring and Autumn to Western Xia (770 BCE – 1227 CE) · Northern nomadic to Dangxiang (Tangut Xi Xia)
North fork with 1200+ ibex and Xi Xia script at 1970 m opposite main park.
