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Zone code: IND-LAD-RTH-Zo01
Rimbethang
unknown
Zone corresponds to a plateau below the road which precedes a plateau called Rimbethang (which is downstream of Skyurbuchen, less than 1 km upstream of Warsedo).
none

road, rock shelter, trail
bank, river, slope
Comments on the environment: Right bank of the Indus; Rocks scattered along the old track that passes over the plateau, smoke-blackened rock shelter above the old track.

scattered
few

open air
petroglyph
granite
boulder

historic, pre-historic

Visits: Martin, Vernier (2003): systematic
good
Comments on the condition: none

Statistics of the zone

item #
rocks 6
surfaces 9
motifs 50
scenes 7

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Rocks

Motif statistics

    Category and identification
  • anthropomorph: 13
  • architecture: 0
  • artefact: 0
  • indeterminate: 6
  • inscription: 0
  • other: 0
  • plant: 0
  • sign: 1
  • zoomorph: 30
    Scene description
  • battle: 0
  • ceremonial: 0
  • confrontation: 0
  • domestication: 0
  • duel: 0
  • hunt: 5
  • image and text: 0
  • inter-species group: 0
  • intra-species group: 1
  • mating: 0
  • none: 0
  • other: 1
  • pair: 0
  • predation: 0
  • religious: 0
    Patina
  • fresh: 0
  • clear: 8
  • medium: 14
  • dark: 27
  • very dark: 1
  • unknown: 0
    Production technique
  • abraded: 0
  • combination: 0
  • hammered: 50
  • incised: 0
  • painted: 0
  • pecked: 0
  • unknown: 0
    Period
  • contemporary: 8
  • historic: 0
  • pre-historic: 0
  • unknown: 42
    Direction
  • front view: 8
  • left: 14
  • right: 0
  • reading sense: 1
  • aerial: 0
  • none: 27
  • unknown: 0
    Drawing
  • contour: 4
  • silhouette: 44
  • combination: 2
  • unknown: 0
    Style
  • rectilinear: 9
  • curvilinear: 1
  • parallel: 0
  • rectoparallel: 0
  • rectangular: 1
  • rectotriangular: 0
  • triangular: 0
  • bitriangular: 4
  • Eurasian animal style: 0
  • other: 0
  • non specific: 35