The displays regarding early human habitation in Mongolia include reproductions and reconstructions of petroglyphs, burial sites and an impressive “deer stone” monolith, and select artifacts such as tools.
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Overall view of gallery.
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Reproduction of cave painting, perhaps earliest depiction of Bactrian camel.
Paleolithic period, ca. 4000-15000 BCE.
Khoid Tsenkher Cave, Mankhan, Khovd prov.
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Stone grinding tool.
Neolithic.
Tamsagbulan, Dornod prov.
Pub.: National Museum, p. 8.
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Carved stone and bone objects
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Stone tools.
Neolithic, 7000-2000 BCE. Provenance unknown.
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Reproduction of a “deer stone.”
Bronze age, 2nd-1st millennium BCE.
260 x 37 x 23.5 cm.Uushgijn övör, Chövsgöl prov.
Inv. No. TD-2004c-4-1.
Pub.: Dschingis Khan, no. 8, p. 46.
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Reproductions of petroglyphs.
Bronze Age, ca. 3000 BCE.
Tevsh, Bogd, Uvurkhangai prov.
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Model of surface appearance of various types of grave sites, Bronze and early Iron Age (ca. 2000 BCE).
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Miscellaneous Bronze and early Iron Age objects.
In upper left, cup for melting metal (1100-800 BCE). Also axe and adze heads (800-300 BCE, provenance unknown).
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Bronze and early Iron Age arrowheads (700-200 BCE, provenance unknown) and knives.
Cf. National Museum, p. 12.
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Display showing placement of bronze bit and bridle ornaments for a horse.
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