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Zone code: IND-LAD-THA-Zo01
Thangurtse
unknown
Rocks on both sides of the road: between the road and the Indus and overhanging. At kilometre/mile marker 45.
Thangurtse is the local name.

ceramic, other, road, trail
bank, other, plateau, river, slope
Comments on the environment: Right bank of the Indus. Old path marked by stone alignments still visible among the rocks. Shelter still used by the shepherds towards the rocks overhanging the road, at the bottom of the cliff. Outcropping ceramic (pink paste).

scattered
few

open air
petroglyph
granite
boulder

historic, pre-historic

Visits: Laurianne, Bruneau (2006): systematic
good
Comments on the condition: Some rocks were destroyed when the road was built.

Statistics of the zone

item #
rocks 18
surfaces 20
motifs 80
scenes 14

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Rocks

Motif statistics

    Category and identification
  • anthropomorph: 28
  • architecture: 3
  • artefact: 0
  • indeterminate: 2
  • inscription: 0
  • other: 2
  • plant: 0
  • sign: 9
  • zoomorph: 36
    Scene description
  • battle: 0
  • ceremonial: 0
  • confrontation: 0
  • domestication: 0
  • duel: 1
  • hunt: 6
  • image and text: 0
  • inter-species group: 0
  • intra-species group: 1
  • mating: 0
  • none: 0
  • other: 3
  • pair: 1
  • predation: 1
  • religious: 0
    Patina
  • fresh: 0
  • clear: 7
  • medium: 22
  • dark: 50
  • very dark: 1
  • unknown: 0
    Production technique
  • abraded: 0
  • combination: 0
  • hammered: 78
  • incised: 0
  • painted: 0
  • pecked: 2
  • unknown: 0
    Period
  • contemporary: 1
  • historic: 3
  • pre-historic: 23
  • unknown: 53
    Direction
  • front view: 7
  • left: 22
  • right: 0
  • reading sense: 1
  • aerial: 0
  • none: 50
  • unknown: 0
    Drawing
  • contour: 5
  • silhouette: 71
  • combination: 4
  • unknown: 0
    Style
  • rectilinear: 0
  • curvilinear: 0
  • parallel: 0
  • rectoparallel: 0
  • rectangular: 0
  • rectotriangular: 0
  • triangular: 0
  • bitriangular: 4
  • Eurasian animal style: 0
  • other: 0
  • non specific: 76