Two strange walking (?) figures on side of small boulder above the left bank of the Tsagaan Salaa, below confluence with Tygyd. Figure on left has a long sleeve, reminiscent of Karakol culture images. Third, uncertain element between the two figures.
View over round platform khirigsuur, RNKH_00003_TG, to end of large moraine within Tsagaan Gol valley; view across valley to confluence of Khatugiin Gol and Tsagaan Gol. (Color symbolism.)
Detail of scene to right of large bull: three archers, two with long bows, two with horned headdresses, one also with large quiver and daluur shooting at fine, parcelled goat on left. Crude goat and larger horse possibly done later.
Section of ""Large Panel"" with two stags and a snow leopard, all by different hands and from different periods. The upper stag is from the Pazyryk Period, the lower stag has characteristics of the Tashtyk style, and the snow leopard is Iron Age. Deeply scraped, discolored horizontal surface.
Low outcrop covered with images of animals, mostly running. At least one image (far right) was done at a much later time. Within a hidden draw, south side of the valley, east end of complex.
Three layers of imagery: Bronze Age figure with large headdress; three crude riders from the Iron Age; and more recent, crude frontal figure. On vertical surface of outcrop.
Detail of RA_PETR_TG_0388, showing the way in which the small animal was pecked over the large elk and the differences between the large and small elk in pecking quality and patina.
Small, vital elk with large antlers; dense, re-patinated pecking. Contrast fine, indirect pecking of the elk with the cruder, direct execution of the more recent goat on the right. Flat, scraped bedrock.
Variety of animals; stags with variety of antlers, ibex with large horns, two hunters. Scraped, rolled bedrock surface; natural pits have been enlarged artifically at some time in the past.
Detail of second rider on horse with long, full tail and head overlaid with leg of a later argali. Clear example of process of re-patination on argali. Scratch marks around images.
Detail of large hunting scene: three archers, upper one unfinished and executed with deeply gouged lines; archers on right and left shown in process of drawing their large bows. Archer on left carries a large quiver at his waist.
Dwelling of black stones in area of 11 dwellings. In center of this structure (as indicated in slide) is a deeply set dark stone with images of goats (see PETR_00018_TG).
Surface high on eastern ridge of Shiveet Khairkhan with a variety of images: hunter, upper left, from the Bronze Age; two figures in combat, left (Bronze Age); large yak with load and goats (Late Bronze Age); stylized ibex with curled horn (Early Iron Age).
Two goats on sloping surface of boulder. Both appear to have the same light patina and similar simple style, but the lower image is more competantly handled than is the upper image: one hand? Two different hands?
Deer or elk suckling her young and confronted by a predator (dog?). Crushed hardened rind has fallen out in several places, revealing the dark grey matrix.
Elegantly pecked, stylized stag, small stag with other antlers but executed in same pecking style. Images repatinated, on red, polished bedrock surface, high terrace, east end of complex.
Detail of hunting scene, showing small archer, elk, and variety of animals. Note variations in pecking technique. Variations in coloration of patina may or may not be indicative of variations in date.
Section of outcrop with hunters surrounded by goats and argali and seeming to use decoy animals held by leads. Large, uncertain element on right. Style of pecking here is generally the same as many of the other sections on this outcrop.,
Group of antlered animals that appear to have been rescraped at various periods since first pecked in the Bronze Age. Two hunters with long bows in the center and on the right. Vertical surface of outcrop.
One large elk, two unfinished elk, on horizontal surface, deeply mineralized, on high outcrop. Images have been crowded by later ibex and unknown animal and overlaid by modern writing.
Boulder with lower section uncovered to reveal a large figure leading a loaded animal (horse?). Above, by another hand, a stag executed in Arzhan style and a figure riding a bull or horse.
Detail of two figures in probable scene of copulation above the woman and child in a family group. The pecking is rougher and the patina darker than in the family group, suggesting that the couple was done at another time.
Man leading a large loaded yak, second yak behind. On the top of the rock is a small hunter, aiming at a goat (?). Style and patina suggest that the man with the first loaded yak was done earlier, at the same time as the horse below. The other yaks were done later, as may have been the hunter above. On a cracked, scraped boulder
Two yaks, moving left, one partially covered by lichen. On large, scraped bedrock surface of rich reddish coloration; on high terrace, east end of complex.
Detail of scene with hunters surrounding a large, wild horse. The men carry spears and bows as well as large daluur. The figure on the left wears a ""horned"" hat.
Detail of large bear hunt: archer (feet lost in lichen) raising his bow and preparing to shoot at a large bear above. On the left, a goat and, below, an unclear animal—possibly an unfinished tethered horse.
Two couples in erotic embrace; a small goat on the right. The couple below is done much more finely than that above and seems to be in a style that is earlier; but the re-patination of both couples is similar.
East side of large panel with stylized deer. Above, a realistic stag; in the center, a highly stylized stag; and, below, where the earth has been cleared away, a pair of highly stylized deer. Red, broken surface of large outcrop.
Composition extended over large, broken outcrop: horses with stiff, upright manes; group of argali approached by wolves; and in upper right, a hunter walking toward the argali with bow readied.