Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai
World Heritage
Mongolia
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The extensive rock carvings and funerary monuments found at these three sites illustrate cultural development in Mongolia over a 12,000-year period. The earliest images reflect a period when the region was partly forested (11,000-6,000 BC), with valleys providing habitat for hunters of large game. Later images show a transition to pastoralism as the primary way of life. More recent images show a transition to a nomadic lifestyle dependent on horses in the early 1st millennium BC, the Scythian period, and the late Turkic period (7th and 8th centuries AD). These carvings make a valuable contribution to our understanding of prehistoric communities in North Asia.
# Animal Husbandry
# Rock painting complex
# Cultural Development
# hunter
# Scythian period
# Turkic period
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