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The recent inclusion of the Mongolian Deer Stone sites in the UNESCO heritage list is reflected in this updated KML file.
Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites
Located on the slopes of the Khangai Ridge in central Mongolia ... Dating from about 1200 to 600 BCE, they stand up to four metres tall and are set directly in the ground as single standing stones or in groups, and are almost always located in complexes that include large burial mounds ... Covered with highly stylized or representational engravings of stags, deer stones are the most important surviving structures belonging to the culture of Eurasian Bronze Age nomads ... between the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE.
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Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites
... deer stones are the most important surviving structures belonging to the culture of Eurasian Bronze Age nomads .... UNESCO

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Jargalantyn Am
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Deer Stone Monuments, the Heart of Bronze Age Culture
Khanui Valley Deer Stones:
Preservation of Ancient Ritual Monuments in Mongolia
On August 15, 2009 a team of two archeologists (Ts.Turbat & J.Bayarsaikhan), Canadian monument conservator ( A. Gabov), 11 archeology students, two cooks and two drivers traveled from Ulaanbaatar to the Jargalantyn Am site to conserve and document 27 of the 32 deer stones (the largest grouping of stelae in the country). The effort was filmed by French photographer and videographer Michel Neyroud.
The conservation plan was to erect 24 of the 32 deer stones at Jarghalantyn Am.Three bigger deer stones of 24 deer stones had fallen down in their original places while the other 21 deer stones had been removed from their original place and reused for the construction of 3 quadrangular structures, unearthed by archaeological excavations in 1989 and 1990, which were erected later in the north part of the monumental complex.
The placement plan created in an earlier stage of the project, May 2009, was based on studies of similar monuments in the territory of Mongolia, and intended to replace those 21 deer stones to points which might be similar to their original placement.
The specifications for the conservation work were provided by A. Gabov (CSMO). The expedition was organized by the Mongolian Tangible Heritage Association NGO, Ulaanbaatar.

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Jargalant Deer Stones
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Jargalant Deer Stone I
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Jargalant Deer Stone II
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Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites
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Khoid Deer Stones
Mongolian Deer Stones, European Menhirs, and Canadian Arctic Inuksuit: Collective Memory and the Function of Northern Monument Traditions
... Since 2006, the joint Monaco-Mongolia mission has conducted research at the site of Tsatsyn Ereg (Arkhangaï province, Khoid Tamir Valley; Magail 2008, 2015). The study area encompasses 150 km2, in which are concentrated many structures of different periods, most notably the Bronze Age. More than 2100 tombs, 110 deer stones, and 3000 petroglyphs have been inventoried for this period ....

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Wonderful news in the appreciation, protection, and celebration of Mongolian cultural heritage!
“Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites” have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1621/1/n

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Uushigiin Uver Deer Stones
Stone Shamans and Flying Deer of Northern Mongolia:
Deer Goddess of Siberia or Chimera of the Steppe?
The Ushkin Uver deer stone site near Muren, Khovsgol aimag, northern Mongolia, has fourteen deer stones positioned in two north-south alignments. ...
a major product of these early efforts was a detailed inventory of deer stone sites conducted by V. V. Volkov, whose descriptions and sketches of some 350 Mongolian stones (Volkov 1981) provided a research baseline, established a preliminary typology, and linked the deer image stylistically with Scythian art from the Altai and southern Tuva (Volkov and Novgorodova 1975). His distribution map (Fig. 2) also showed that while deer stones are found beyond the boundaries of Mongolia they are concentrated in the most productive, well-watered region of the northern Mongolian steppe that has been the core area for Mongolian cultural development during the past four thousand years. ...
Despite superficial similarities to Russian kurgans, the Mongolian mounds are distinctive, having complex architecture that includes a central mound of boulders, a rock-paved plaza or inner space enclosed by a rectangular or circular stone fence, with smaller satellite boulder mounds at regularly spaced intervals immediately east of the fence, and beyond that an array of small hearths encircled by cobblestones (Fig. 3). Khirigsuurs always “face” east, and sometimes have a stone pavement that extends east from the central mound to the stone fence and usually have satellite mounds located only on the eastern side of the khirigsuur. Excavations have shown conclusively that the central mounds covered human burials ...

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Uushigiin Uver Kurgan
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Uushigiin Uver Deer Stones

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Ikhtamir Deer Stone

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Bat-Ulzii Deer Stone

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Bayan Bulag Circle 120m
Advancing Archaeological Research of the Mongolian Altai through the Scientific Study
of Deer Stones: New Discoveries from Buyant Valley
Buyant Valley contains numerous deer stones, a majority of which remain directly associated with undisturbed khirigsuurs, two of which are very large. The valley’s deer stones also exhibit considerable variation in size and imagery even in this relatively small geographic area.
... The greatest number of deer stones in Buyant Valley was found on the west bank of Buyant River in Bayan Bulag Mountains, where several funerary-memorial complexes are located (Fig. 1, Fig. 2). Notably, the Bayan Bulag-I complex has huge khirigsuurs (burial mounds) that are clearly visible in satellite imagery; next to them are Turkic fences and other funerary structures built from stone. It should be noted that Khirigsuur no. 1 (west) differs from the other two large stone structures in dimension, design features, and presence of deer stones. Khirigsuur no. 1 is the earliest in the complex and contains a platform.

Bayan Bulag Circle 122m
Advancing Archaeological Research of the Mongolian Altai through the Scientific Study
of Deer Stones: New Discoveries from Buyant Valley
The dimensions of the central mound (khirigsuur), from which eight “paths” radiate, are 32 x 34 m (length and width, respectively). Deer stones are present in its southeastern section.

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Hoshootiyn Zaag Kurgans
Advancing Archaeological Research of the Mongolian Altai through the Scientific Study
of Deer Stones: New Discoveries from Buyant Valley
A chain of four khirigsuurs is recorded in the Hoshootiyn Zaag area on the right bank of Buyant River (Fig. 1). On the southernmost mound lies a deer stone ( ....

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Tsenkher Deer Stone

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