Salvete Omnes,
we will lope to the Central Asian heartlands - the Kazakhstan's heartlands where many rock art sites have been discovered and some studied and preserved in a kind of open air museums.
In Zhetysu or Semirechye ( the Seven Rivers) region of Kazakhstan there is this area known as Tamgaly/Tanbaly Reserve Museum and UNESCO site (Tamgaly River valley)- here, in this article from academia - authored by S. Sapatayev & B. Zheleznyakov cum J. Biver - you can view the geography (maps) of the region and one fine rendering of the Bronze Age petroglyphs from Tamgaly. First studied and described by a Soviet archaeologist A.G. Maksimova in 1958, these petroglyphs and associated archaeological sites have been studied by scientists.
The Sun-beams & Sun-heads from the mentioned article - associated wit the Andronovo culture, and burial grounds belonging to the Andronovo culture (Atasu and Semirechye variants of the Andronovo culture within Kazakhstan)the have been found in this area.
Poznan Adam Mickiewicz University researcher prof. Andrzej Rozwadowski's article on the shamanic characteristics of these petroglyphs - more interesting aspects & examples of this rock art in the Eurasian context can be found on the professor's academia page (linked in his last name)
you have many more available for viewing and downloading from wiki commons eg
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| a horse with ibex? horns like in the later Scythian/Saka kurgan burials eg Berel kurgans reconstructed by prof. Krym Altynbekov |
Apart from horses and humans there are deer, cattle, argali (mountain sheep), camels and sacred motives etc.
Valete
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