Pair of stylized deer of the "Mongolian" type, photographed in flare. On south-sloping, dark surface. Note small antlers of the lower deer, huge antlers of the upper deer.
Detail of flat, worn slab with deep red surface; two large yaks on left, two wheeled vehicles in center, and faint hunter with several animals.Located on high east ridge of Shiveet Khairkhan.
Crudely pecked scene with two wheeled vehicles. That on the left has two drivers in the basket. The driver of the cart on the left is shooting his bow to his right. Both carts have solid wheels, although the original form may have popped out. Both carts are pulled by two horses, roughly formed.
Scene with a larfge, spoke wheeled vehicle driven by an unclear figure and pulled by two, small horses; a rider on a largte horse and several animals; on the the left, possibly a frontal woman in a posture expressive of alarm.
Detail of hind section of stylized stag showing levels of overlay: large stag's hind leg over the back hip of a small stag, and the dog biting at the rear thigh of the stylized stag overlaying the antlers of the smaller stag, below.
Small stylized elk, all females (?) or young. On horizontal, red surface. Note variation in re-patination and the manner in which one doe has been scraped.
On upper surface, scraped and polished, scattered images, including a crude rider, two stylized deer followed by an uncertain animal, and a stylized deer in upper right (partial).
Unfinished stylized stag with raised head with unfinished antlers and legs. Its long beak-mouth has been scratched in rather than pecked. Above is a small horse, also unfinished. Scraped bedrock.
Stylized stag with drooping beak-like head, long thin anters. Above: small animal with strange looped horn, crude frontal figure, and unidentifiable element. On scraped, pitted horizontal bedrock.
Horizontal, scraped surface of bedrock with stylized deer, small horse, and other animals. On the right, a cart with two horses and a poorly articulated driver. The treatment of the horses is uneven in quality but they may be by the same hand.
Detail of Large Panel: chariot drawn by two horses, yoked but without reins. Driver stands in basket and appears to be shooting an arrow toward a small animal. Other animals by same hand; modern scratched elements.
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.
Group of figures that may or may not be related: archer in spoke wheeled cart drawn by two horses, small animal, and rider with tall headdress. On horizontal surface of rise.
Undulating surface of smooth and bluish cast, covered with variety of images. Several images, pecked and engraved, of stylized deer, one over Bronze Age animals; other animals, a human figure. Images have re-patinated into a rusted dark brown. Overlay.
Large surface with variety of images not necessarily related. In the center, a figure leads a loaded yak, on the right a number of animals including a fine, running argali.
Large scene with preparations for moving a household: loaded yaks, horses attached by leads; woman holding leads of animals; man with the typical dress of an Early Nomad. Note scene of dogs attacking an argali in the center, suggesting the intersection of domesticated and wild worlds. On flat, broken bedrock surface.
Detail of one archer with horned headdress and with long bow, quiver, and daluur. Part of large vertically sloping surface with many figures in ritual-like poses.
Two archers on horseback, one well done, the other more clumsy. Both done in a style indicative of the Tagar Period. On scraped, worn west section of Large Panel.
Two archaic birthing women in upper right section of the surface, partially covered by horn of a caprid within a later hunting scene. Low, worn reddish surface, boulder. Lower ledge, East Ritual Site.
Vertically sloping surface with several riders representing at least two different periods; hunter on foot shooting many arrows at group of animals and, in turn, being shot by a figure above his head (probably added later). This panel is just below RA_PETR_TG_0672 and appears to be largely done by the same hand.
Detail of deer with very large antlers and elements of stylization: elongation of body, peak at withers, size of antlers. Note variation in the process of repatination. Overlay of scratched marks in at least two layers.
Detail of large panel with caravan scene. Here walking bull, stag attacked by dogs or wolves, two female (?) figures, one three-quarter the other frontal.
Full view of outcrop used as if it were a landscape setting: a hobbled horse is visible in the upper left, an archer walking right in the lower center, and a large elk attacked by either snow leopards or, more likely, wolves, to the right of the man.
Group of finely pecked wild animals on broken, sloping bedrock. Two stags attacked by wolves or dogs, bull, fine ibex. This panel is adjacent to the panel in PETR_0414_OI.
Split boulder with remains of a large scene of the herding of cattle. This composition is an important indication of an early (late Bronze Age) use of riding for herding.
Section of large outcrop irregularly covered with lichen and including two scenes from very different periods. On the left, a large, ithyphallic figure with raised arm and tail-like appendage overlays a walking bovid. To the right, a small running dog, pecked in the same dense style as the man, is partially lost under lichen. Below, two crouching hunters and two fine argali are executed in a linear, engraved style.
Large cow or bull attacked by a long-tailed animal (snow leopard?). Small figure beneath the bovid and possibly another animal attacking its nose. Upper section of jutting outcrop.
Group of 13 figures, almost all with mushroom shaped hats and daluur, seen in three-quarter view. The figures ' postures suggest ritual dance. One figure has been pecked in a more recent period and the same more recent hand may have scratched outlines around several of the other figures.
Detail of third archer with long-horned headdress, long bow, gorytus and daluur; one of several images by the same hand and with the same suggestion of a ritual hunt or dance.
Section of ""Large Panel,"" with large stag confronted by a small rider/archer and (behind) a dog. Above, partially lost under the lichen, is another rider, possibly belonging to the same composition.
Detail of two figures in combat; that on the right is less finished than that on left. Both carry bows with slightly curved tips, suggesting composite bows.
Group of animals and a figure on the upper surface of a large outcropping with many images. These include elk, a parcelled bull, and a walking figure with belted tunic.
Hunter with bow, several animals executed with varied techniques and, possibly, varied hands. Note use of dense scraping of goat image.On edge of bedrock high on eastern ridge of Shiveet Khairkhan.
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.
Composition with two large elk attacked by three wolves. Note that although the two elk are clearly done by the same hand, the treatment of their antlers varies and the body of the animal on the left is more stylized than that on the right.