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Zone code: IND-LAD-UMT-Zo01
Umla thang
unknown
Zone located between the village of Umla and the junction of the track that connects it to the road between Taru and Nimu: engraved rocks are located about 200m east of the track.
none

trail
cone, plateau
Comments on the environment: Passage leads to the Nubra Valley | electric line

gathered
few

open air
petroglyph
granite
boulder

historic, pre-historic

Visits: Martin, Vernier (2004): systematic
Laurianne, Bruneau; Quentin Devers; Martin, Vernier (2007): surveyed
good
Comments on the condition: none

Statistics of the zone

item #
rocks 28
surfaces 29
motifs 277
scenes 11

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Rocks

Motif statistics

    Category and identification
  • anthropomorph: 20
  • architecture: 1
  • artefact: 0
  • indeterminate: 52
  • inscription: 1
  • other: 0
  • plant: 0
  • sign: 6
  • zoomorph: 197
    Scene description
  • battle: 0
  • ceremonial: 0
  • confrontation: 0
  • domestication: 1
  • duel: 0
  • hunt: 6
  • image and text: 0
  • inter-species group: 0
  • intra-species group: 1
  • mating: 0
  • none: 0
  • other: 2
  • pair: 0
  • predation: 1
  • religious: 0
    Patina
  • fresh: 1
  • clear: 3
  • medium: 44
  • dark: 93
  • very dark: 136
  • unknown: 0
    Production technique
  • abraded: 0
  • combination: 0
  • hammered: 277
  • incised: 0
  • painted: 0
  • pecked: 0
  • unknown: 0
    Period
  • contemporary: 1
  • historic: 1
  • pre-historic: 0
  • unknown: 275
    Direction
  • front view: 3
  • left: 44
  • right: 0
  • reading sense: 136
  • aerial: 1
  • none: 93
  • unknown: 0
    Drawing
  • contour: 36
  • silhouette: 198
  • combination: 2
  • unknown: 41
    Style
  • rectilinear: 34
  • curvilinear: 1
  • parallel: 0
  • rectoparallel: 0
  • rectangular: 6
  • rectotriangular: 18
  • triangular: 0
  • bitriangular: 6
  • Eurasian animal style: 0
  • other: 0
  • non specific: 212