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Zone code: IND-ZAN-THN-Zo01
Tahan
unknown
East of the village of Tahan-Tungri at the foot of the cliff (where the Dzongbao cave is located) overlooking the hamlet.
According to Tsering, there were other petroglyphs on the other side of the alluvial cone towards Karcha.

canal, cultivated area, other, trail, trash, village
cone
Comments on the environment: Left bank of the Doda. Site shared by a bisse, north of the old track leading to Karcha.

gathered
few

open air
petroglyph
other
boulder

historic

Visits: Martin, Vernier (1997): systematic
Martin, Vernier (2004): systematic
Martin, Vernier (2014): systematic
Martin, Vernier (2017): systematic
good
Comments on the condition: none

Statistics of the zone

item #
rocks 29
surfaces 31
motifs 164
scenes 13

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Rocks

Motif statistics

    Category and identification
  • anthropomorph: 17
  • architecture: 21
  • artefact: 1
  • indeterminate: 18
  • inscription: 2
  • other: 0
  • plant: 0
  • sign: 3
  • zoomorph: 102
    Scene description
  • battle: 0
  • ceremonial: 0
  • confrontation: 1
  • domestication: 2
  • duel: 0
  • hunt: 2
  • image and text: 3
  • inter-species group: 0
  • intra-species group: 2
  • mating: 0
  • none: 0
  • other: 3
  • pair: 0
  • predation: 0
  • religious: 0
    Patina
  • fresh: 0
  • clear: 41
  • medium: 35
  • dark: 67
  • very dark: 21
  • unknown: 0
    Production technique
  • abraded: 0
  • combination: 2
  • hammered: 162
  • incised: 0
  • painted: 0
  • pecked: 0
  • unknown: 0
    Period
  • contemporary: 0
  • historic: 28
  • pre-historic: 0
  • unknown: 136
    Direction
  • front view: 41
  • left: 35
  • right: 0
  • reading sense: 21
  • aerial: 0
  • none: 67
  • unknown: 0
    Drawing
  • contour: 39
  • silhouette: 97
  • combination: 1
  • unknown: 27
    Style
  • rectilinear: 13
  • curvilinear: 0
  • parallel: 1
  • rectoparallel: 0
  • rectangular: 10
  • rectotriangular: 0
  • triangular: 0
  • bitriangular: 0
  • Eurasian animal style: 0
  • other: 0
  • non specific: 140