For many years, scientists have been researching the Shalabolinskaya Pisanitsa - a historical monument that has preserved examples of rock art from different years. New drawings have been found recently.
The steep rocky coastal massif near the Tuba River (the right tributary of the Yenisei) attracted the attention of specialists at the beginning of the 20th century. Having found many images on the stone surfaces, scientists gave them the name "Shalabolinskaya Pisanitsa" - after one of the nearby villages. Over the years of research, hundreds of planes and rock friezes with drawings have been discovered, which are found at heights from 2.5 m to 150 m from the August water line.
The images are made by embossing, grinding, engraving or using mineral dyes, and sometimes the ancient master used several artistic techniques at the same time. The drawings of the Shalabolinskaya scribble belong to different eras, but basically there is a large layer of the Okunev period - the South Siberian archaeological culture of cattle-breeders of the Bronze Age (II millennium BC). In 2017, the project "Preservation and Popularization of the Shalabolinskaya Pisanitsa Cultural Heritage Site" won the All-Russian competition of the "Presidential Grants Fund". This allowed the scientists of the Krasnoyarsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society to begin an in-depth study of this monument, to begin work on drawing up a map of images and making copies of planes with drawings.
During the summer season-2018, scientists and students surveyed the entire three-kilometer mountain range, revealing about 300 planes with rock paintings. 30 of this number are new planes on which more than 100 previously unknown petroglyphs were applied.
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They have a wide time range - about nine thousand years (from the Stone Age to ethnographic modernity). Ancient artists depicted wild boars, marals, elks, bears, bulls and other animals; people are shown in boats, on horseback, on skis, during hunting, battles and cult rites. Of particular interest are images of mythical predators and fantastic images in the form of masks, which were made four thousand years ago.
