Studies of the Amur-Ussuri Province of Rock Art
Journal: Russian Foundation for Basic Research Journal Humanities and social sciences
Year: 2019

Rock arts study represents research of ancient pictures or petroglyphs centering around life and beliefs of our ancestors. At the same time, this is a very complicated process of rescue and recovery of a great part of Russian cultural heritage. Stories or myths carved and drawn on a stone are permanently exposed to a negative impact of natural or anthropogenic factors. In fact, they erode and peel off, as well as they are overgrown with lichens and destroyed by tourists. Recording of these landm