Altai Culture & History
A variety of local indigenous culture and history photos, with a few shots of traditional Russian culture as well. The petroglyphs pictured here can date back as far as 4000 BCE (Stone and Bronze Ages to recent periods).
- Deer stone at Bele on Lake Teletskoye
- Altaian ritual offerings
- Bichiktu Boom, a traditional Altaian village
- Danil explains the network of standing stones in Karakol Valley
- Excavated kurgan burial mound in Karakol Valley
- Kalbak-Tash petroglyphs of hunter, wagon, and woman giving birth
- Kalbak Tash petroglyph shaman perhaps
- Kalbak Tash deer petroglyph
- Kalbak Tash deer hunting petroglyph
- Snow leopard petroglyph at Kalbak Tash
- Milling Siberian pine nuts
- Patmos convent on an isle in the Katun River
- Traditional Russian singers in Ust Koksa
- Traditional hitching post at Chui Oozy
- Traditional wagon in Kosh Agach
- Visiting a standing stone in the Karakol Valley
- An explanation of the Altaian spiritual world view