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Petroglyphs by the Sheremetyevo settlement   Print 

Petroglyphs by Sheremetyevo are located on the sheer cliffs on the right side of the Ussury riva, in 1,5-4 kilometers down the riverflow from the Sheremetyevo settlement (Vyasemski district). It is the drawings of the disguise (masks), animals, birds, ships, anthropomorphic images. Together 33 drawings are found in three places. The drawings are fulfilled by a deep channeling striking. The images are related to the neolith epoch and the early Iron Age and dated the third millennium B.C. - first millennium A.C.

The first among the known to science rock drawings in the Amur basin became the drawings on the right bank of the Ussury river, by the Sheremeteyvo settlement. They are grouped in three isolated places on rocky exposure of the high radical bank of the river, covered by a dense wood of the Ussury taiga. The area is extremely picturesque. Here, in the number of the sites there had been found archeological monuments - the ancient settlements of the Iron Age (Mohe time) and the Middle Age (Chzhurchzen time). There also a neolithic settlement with a characteristic for Lower Amur's neolith ceramics and stoneware.

An extract from the A.P.Okladnikov's book
"Lower Amur Petroglyphs".