Herd of goats on two different sections of split boulder. Those above are probably earlier than the small group below. Note the treatment of some of the animals as if seen in a three-quarter pose. The vertical surface may delay the repatination of the images; thus the upper group may belong to the Early Nomadic Period.
Section of Large Panel with several instances of overlay: rider scratched onto an earlier leopard, leopards juxtaposed with earlier bull, and Tagar rider and horses (lower left). Deeply scraped, worn.
Section of Large Panel with chariot in upper right with driver/hunter; hunter on foot overlaid by spotted boar executed in same style as felines elsewhere on Large Panel.
Detail of two lower riders in RA_PETR_TG_0932. Note engraved outline for rider and horse's hindquarters, treatment of legs in manner typical of Tashtyk style.
Detail of RA_PETR_TG_0929, with two riders on horses with elaborate regalia. Although the image at the top is most finely pecked, the two images are clearly by the same hand and period. Note the variation in patina, including the appearance of a fine, hard white covering on the lower animal, possibly caused by scoring.
Detail of RA_PETR_TG_0929, with Tagar Period horse, goat, and camel on the right and three much later riders on the left. The camel has been partially repecked and covered with scratches, including that of a frontal stick figure. The riders on the left include one on a horse with ram horns; all have elaborate regalia.
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.
Detail with image of archer drawing his long bow. Note difference in pecking and patina between the archer and the goat on left; and note scratched-in rider to the right of the archer.
Section of ""Large Panel"" with snow leopard; goats confronted by dogs; an archer with large bow, drawn arrow, and daluur; and two riders, one of which brandishes a Tagar battle axe. Horiontal, deeply scraped surface.
Two scenes of animal predation, one on a small deer and the other on a larger elk. The distinct difference in patina and surface condition indicates that the scene was executed by two different hands at two different times. However, style differences indicate that the larger figures are later than the lighter, but finer small animals. On broken bedrock in terrace, right bank of upper Tsagaan Gol.
Two yaks, partially damaged, walking right; small, possibly earlier bull on right. These images were pecked on a stone later (now) used for framing a Turkic enclosure. Located on plateau on the right bank of the upper Tsagaan Gol.
Two elk, male and female, followed by a fine wolf; on sloping slab on high terrace, east end of complex. Two other crude images and one ""lost"" image below. Note that the pecked surface of the large elk has fallen out revealing the grey and flaking matrix.
Large, stylized stag done in a crude version of the Arzhan or Pazyryk style; on vertical surface of large outcrop. Within a draw on south side of valley, east end of complex.
Hunter with drawn bow; dogs above, other marks. Note variety of pecking suggesting at least two periods. The wolves above were probably done by the same hand, but the underlying surface makes for distinct differences in quality of pecking. Large, crude elements are later as may be the hunter. On terrace, south side of upper Tsagaan Gol valley.
Smashed boulder with two pictorial sections: above, seen here inverted, a scene of a hunter with a large bow, shooting at a goat; below, section with more than 46 running goats.
Small scene with hunter, large caprids, and a dog. The caprid above has been done in a much later period. On sloping surface. On first terrace above valley, right bank, upper Tsagaan Gol.
Detail of boulder with many images. Note double caprids in center, plantigrade caprid above, elegant hunter and stag. Different patina of images does not necessarily indicate different dates, but the differences in style (of images and pecking) probably do indicate different hands/periods. In this case, the lower double caprid seems to be a copy of the upper one, done at a much later time.
Series of hunting scenes with wild goats, elk, dogs, and archers. On vertical surface with very broken rind. Style and differences in patina suggest different periods, but that is not certain.
Scene with animals in several different styles but possibly by the same hand: horses and squared animals with interior open pecking. This scene has been overlain by a scratched in scene of hunter with long, recurve bow and various animals. On fractured bedrock in Khar Chuluut.
Small hunter shooting right towards three animals done in an Arzhan style; stag and ucertain element on right appear to be by a different and later hand. On section of broken outcrop, Khar Chuluut.
Three images, possibly all by different hands: tall figure with long staff, daluur, quiver (Bronze Age); crude goat Iron Age); boar done in an elaborate parcelled style (Arzhan or Pazyryk style).
Detail of two hunters or herders attached by lines to goats and other animals including a large, crude yak. This section appears to have been added to the earlier group of animals attached by a ""life-line"".
Two hunters attached by so-called ""life line"" to a series of animals mounting up the rock face. On deeply varnished, fractured outcrop. This ""life-line"" composition is one of three in this immediate area (Khar Chuluut). Style of figures suggests that the lower group (with hunters) was done later than the upper group.
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
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.
Man carrying bow and leading a herd of yaks, several with plantigrade feet. One yak is damaged by a spalled surface. On vertical face of high, damaged outcrop.
Detail of large hunt scene with finely pecked images of wolves (large and small) chasing a small goat. Note differences in style between these images and the cruder, larger ones.