🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Chuya Steppe — Kosh-Agach Geoglyph Petroglyphs
Iron Age to Medieval · Pazyryk-Scythian, Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol
Kosh-Agach Chuya steppe 1750 m with 800 petroglyphs, Pazyryk deer-stone stag and 80-ibex super-panel.
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38 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Iron Age · Andronovo-influenced Ordos, Xiongnu
Daqingshan east Yinshan with 1500 petroglyphs, Andronovo chariot and Ordos deer-stone stags, Shang–Xiongnu.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Chalcolithic to Iron Age · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti-Vanadzor, Lchashen-Metsamor
Syunik 3300-m crater-lake plateau with >4000 black basalt petroglyphs, chariot and solar calendar boulders.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Neolithic to Iron Age · Kitoi, Serovo, Glazkovo, Kurumchin
Baikal white marble 20-m cliff with 70 anthropomorphs 6000–800 BCE and surviving red ochre, Okladnikov corpus.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Neolithic to Bronze Age · Majiayao, Qijia, Xindian
Baiyin east bank Yellow River 3000–4000 yr deer and ibex paintings/petroglyphs, 2025-discovered.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Medieval · Palaeolithic Altai, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Turkic
North bank of Tsagaan Salaa-Baga Oigor UNESCO valley, 7000 petroglyphs including 12000 BCE mammoth-hunt.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Neolithic to Iron Age · Isakovo, Serovo, Kitoi, Glazkovo, Kurumchin
Upper Lena 3.5-km sandstone pillars with 2000 Neolithic–Iron elk, boats and shaman-horses, Okladnikov's type site.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Rock art
Neolithic to Iron Age (Kelteminar to Yaz-I) · Kelteminar, Zamanbaba, Andronovo and Bactria-Margiana pastoralists
Karatau gorge with 10,000 petroglyphs 5000–1000 BCE, Uzbekistan's largest rock-art ensemble.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
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.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
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.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Iron Age to Early Modern · Saka (Scythian), Dzungar Oirat Mongol, Kazakh
Ili River south bank continuation of 17th-century Tamgaly-Tas Buddhist carvings with Saka animal style underneath.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
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.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Iron Age to Medieval · Pazyryk-Scythian, Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol
Kosh-Agach Chuya steppe 1750 m with 800 petroglyphs, Pazyryk deer-stone stag and 80-ibex super-panel.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun, Turkic
West cirque of Saimaluu-Tash at 3120 m with 1072 boulders, Andronovo ploughing and shaman processions.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Early Nomadic to Early Medieval · Saka, Wusun, Turkic (Issyk-Kul basin pastoralists)
North sector of 42-ha Cholpon-Ata lake-shore museum with Saka snow-leopard petroglyphs.
🇨🇳 China · 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.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Turkic · Andronovo-Fedorovo, Saka, Turkic
Kungei secondary gorge 800 m north of Tamgaly UNESCO site with 400 Middle Bronze sun-head petroglyphs.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Eneolithic to Early Bronze Age · Sredny Stog, Yamnaya
East plateau of Kamyana Mohyla with 18 grottoes, Eneolithic stag and foot-sole pecked slabs.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Mesolithic to Bronze Age · Kukrek, Sredny Stog, Yamnaya and Catacomb
South ridge of Kamyana Mohyla sandstone hill with 30 grottoes, Mesolithic–Bronze Age pecked aurochs and horse-heads.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age · Gobustan hunters, Kura-Araxes, Classical (Roman contact)
South slope of Kichikdash with 1100 boat and aurochs hunt cupule petroglyphs.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic, Karakhanid
East ridge cirque 900 m east of main lake with Turkic falconry medieval phase.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Late Bronze to Medieval Silk Road · Urartian, Medieval Armenian (Zakarid), Seljuk
North plateau caravanserai rock-shelter with medieval caravan petroglyphs at 2820 m.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Palaeolithic to Early Bronze · Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Okunev
South overhang 180 m south of cave with Afanasievo exterior petroglyphs on talus.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Early Nomadic · Saka, Wusun, Kangju
Upper second terrace 500 m inland with Saka animal style settlement context.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Early Bronze Age · Catacomb (Katakombnaya)
North gully 350 m north of Kamyana Mohyla with Catacomb geometric masks and wagon panels.
