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Ibex and Hunter Petroglyph

Lines pecked into dark basalt outline a large ibex with spiraled horns and a smaller human figure approaching it. The petroglyph (8th c. BC–5th c. AD) belongs to the open-air rock art of Cholpon-Ata, where many such scenes cluster along ancient routes. The pairing of hunter and mountain animal suggests a link between subsistence, status, and sacred forces of the steppe landscape.
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