Cross-Legged Sitter in Minusinsk Rock Art: Attribution and Analogies
Journal: SibScript
Year: 2024

The rock art of the Minusinsk Basin has a long academic history; however, it still brings about new fascinating discoveries. Some petroglyphs of the Tesin period show people sitting cross-legged on the floor in the so-called Oriental fashion. These images have not yet received special scientific attention. Such images are most often single; they are to be found on such petroglyph sites and mound stones of the Minusinsk Basin as Oglakhty, Kamenka, Togr-Tag, Abakan-Perevoz, Tepsei, etc. The presen