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Zone code: IND-NUB-KUS-Zo01
Kushuwar
unknown
North East of Guri, left bank of the Siachen, southern part of the Tirisha massif, 200m above the road.
The top is forbidden to women and foreigners.

canal, ceramic, delimited ground space, landmark, other, rock shelter, trail, undetermined structure
cone, torrent
Comments on the environment: Recent retention basin | recent Lhatho | heap of stones.

scattered
few

open air
petroglyph
granite
boulder wall

historic, pre-historic

Visits: Laurianne, Bruneau; Quentin, Devers; Martin, Vernier (2011): surveyed
Mission Archéologique Franco-Indienne au Ladakh_MAFIL (2013): systematic
exploited
Comments on the condition: Intensive exploitation of the stones at the bottom of the site.

Statistics of the zone

item #
rocks 33
surfaces 41
motifs 109
scenes 21

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Rocks

Motif statistics

    Category and identification
  • anthropomorph: 5
  • architecture: 48
  • artefact: 1
  • indeterminate: 2
  • inscription: 30
  • other: 0
  • plant: 1
  • sign: 0
  • zoomorph: 22
    Scene description
  • battle: 0
  • ceremonial: 0
  • confrontation: 0
  • domestication: 0
  • duel: 0
  • hunt: 0
  • image and text: 17
  • inter-species group: 0
  • intra-species group: 1
  • mating: 0
  • none: 0
  • other: 2
  • pair: 1
  • predation: 0
  • religious: 0
    Patina
  • fresh: 0
  • clear: 7
  • medium: 75
  • dark: 25
  • very dark: 2
  • unknown: 0
    Production technique
  • abraded: 0
  • combination: 0
  • hammered: 109
  • incised: 0
  • painted: 0
  • pecked: 0
  • unknown: 0
    Period
  • contemporary: 1
  • historic: 78
  • pre-historic: 2
  • unknown: 28
    Direction
  • front view: 7
  • left: 75
  • right: 0
  • reading sense: 2
  • aerial: 0
  • none: 25
  • unknown: 0
    Drawing
  • contour: 69
  • silhouette: 40
  • combination: 0
  • unknown: 0
    Style
  • rectilinear: 0
  • curvilinear: 0
  • parallel: 0
  • rectoparallel: 0
  • rectangular: 0
  • rectotriangular: 0
  • triangular: 0
  • bitriangular: 0
  • Eurasian animal style: 5
  • other: 0
  • non specific: 104