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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">nsc</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Archaeology, Ethnology &amp; Anthropology of Eurasia</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1563-0110</issn><publisher><publisher-name>IAET SB RAS</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17746/1563-0110.2020.48.1.072-080</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">nsc-895</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ЭПОХА ПАЛЕОМЕТАЛЛА</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Late Bronze Age Petroglyphs of Unyuk Mountain, in the Minusinsk Basin</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4291-3313</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Esin</surname><given-names>Y. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Department Head.</p><p>Shchetinkina 23, Abakan, 655017</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">esin2006@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4056-0670</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Skobelev</surname><given-names>S. G.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Laboratory Head.</p><p>Pirogova 1, Novosibirsk, 630090</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">sgskobelev@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="en">Khakass Research Institute of Language, Literature and History<country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-2"><aff xml:lang="en">Novosibirsk State University<country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2020</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>25</day><month>03</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>48</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>72</fpage><lpage>80</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Esin Y.N., Skobelev S.G., 2020</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Esin Y.N., Skobelev S.G.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Esin Y.N., Skobelev S.G.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/895">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/895</self-uri><abstract><p>This study introduces a new southern Siberian rock art site, situated on the Unyuk Mountain, in the Minusinsk Basin, and studied in 20I6-20I7. Stylistically, the main petroglyphs date to the Late Bronze Age, i.e. late 2nd to early 1st millennia BC. Of special interest are images of oxen with ropesfixed in their noses. Such petroglyphs are rare in that region. In one case, the ox is tied to a pillar; in the other case, a man leads it. The composition consisting of a man and an ox walking in one direction is repeated thrice. All the known petroglyphic images of a man holding a rope attached to an ox’s nose were found on the right bank of the Yenisei. This may be due to the cultural and economic specificity of the southeastern, forest-steppe part of the Minusinsk Basin. At the same time, these images may be a local variant of the composition “man walking with an ox”, which occurs mainly in more southerly areas of the Altai-Sayan. Another rare petroglyph found on the Unyuk Mountain shows a pillar with a triple top. Its parallels, found at other petroglyphic sites in the Minusinsk Basin, are described. They may refer either to everyday practice or to beliefs about the dead person’s travel to the nether world.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Southern Siberia</kwd><kwd>Minusinsk Basin</kwd><kwd>Late Bronze Age</kwd><kwd>petroglyphs</kwd><kwd>ox</kwd><kwd>bull</kwd><kwd>ritual pillar</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement>This study was performed under the basic part of the Research Public Contract. The authors are grateful to V.S. Makienko, researcher of the Museum of History and Ethnography of the Krasnoturansky District, Krasnoyarsk Territory, for the information on the locations of petroglyphs on the Unyuk Mountain</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Alekseenko E.A. 1967 Kety. Leningrad: Nauka.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Alekseenko E.A. 1967 Kety. 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