Resource #: 19465 (URL for reference)
Collections: 2001 Upper Tibet Antiquities Expedition (UTAE)
Description:
An anthropomorph with a ﾑmushroom-shaped' head or headdress and raised arms at the brag gtsug open air rock art theatre (I-25). Anthropomorphic figures with similarly shaped heads and poses are found in southern Siberia, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, the Altai and Kazakhistan (see Develet, M. A. 2004. Kamenny ﾓkompasﾔ v Sayanskom kanyone Yeniseya. Moscow: Nauchny mir). Like other petroglyphs at brag gtsug, this figure dates to the pre-Buddhist period. Analogous figures in other regions of Inner Asia are sometimes ascribed by researchers using indirect means to the Bronze Age.Associated Resources
Resource type: Image
Photographer: John Bellezza
Recording Note:
ru thog