Moscow: Russian archaeologist Andrei Borodovsky discovered rock engravings in the Salgar region of the Altai Mountains, dating back 5,000 years.
According to the press office of Novosibirsk State University, the engravings indicate shared cultural features between Central Asia and the Far East.
The engravings depict single-wheeled carts, with their upper structure described as amorphous. These carts resemble other Chinese carts from the Han Dynasty, suggesting that the engravings date back to the early Iron Age, i.e., the first millennium BCE.
Borodovsky explained that these engravings reflect specific civilizational and chronological features, and that they resemble others found in the Pegtymel River Valley (Chukotka), noting that the depiction of carts in Salgar differs from those in other sites in the Altai Mountains, which reinforces the uniqueness of the discovered carts, with their single wheel and amorphous upper structure.
The Altai Mountains are a mountain range in Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge.
