NOVOSIBIRSK STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY
The Stone Age images were examined during a Russian-Mongolian expedition led by Vyacheslav Ivanovich and his colleagues on the right bank of the Baga-Oygur River.
- At this remarkable site, we uncovered an ancient sanctuary along with a collection of rock paintings depicting animals such as mountain rams, snakes, bulls, marals, and horses. These are the oldest known paintings in Mongolia, which we have classified as belonging to the Kalgutinsky style, named after the Kalgutinsky mine located on the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains. They date back to the late Pleistocene to early Holocene, approximately 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Consequently, we were able to determine that the ancient populations of southern Altai and Mongolia constituted a single enclave, - stated Vyacheslav Ivanovich.
The book is scheduled for publication at the end of 2025, alongside the second volume of the series “Tartas-1 – The Crossroads of Cultures and Eras”, which focuses on the analysis of burials from the largest necropolis in Western Siberia. This site is currently being excavated in the Vengerovsky district of the Novosibirsk region (the first volume was published in 2022). It is worth noting that students from IIGSO NSPU participate in all expeditions under the direction of Vyacheslav Ivanovich Molodin.
