Petroglyphs on Zhaltyrak-Tash stones

Talas
Kyrgyzstan

Contained in place
Type
Landmarks or Historical Buildings
Description

Zhaltyrak-Tash as a multi-layered monument is dated in a significant time range - from the Bronze Age to ethnographic modernity. The most ancient are considered to be animal drawings made in bitreugular style and having analogies in Saimaluu-Tash.
Wagons and chariots, anthropomorphic images, erotic scenes, etc. are attributed to the Age of the Developed Bronze Age. The most diverse is the complex correlated with the Early Iron Age, consisting of numerous animal images in the Scytho-Siberian style and having analogies in the vast Eurasian area.

Region
Place Type
DMO