PETROGLYPHS ON KURGAN FLAGSTONES OF BURIAL MOUND PODKAMEN IN NOTHERN KHAKASSIA
In the article explored by the author in 2003 petroglyphs on flagstones of burial mound fences of the Tagar culture near village Podkamen are published. The most of them are carvings including unusual figures in long robes and with high headdresses. Such figures have been known since the late XIXth century but till the present they are a mystery though are found on several monuments of Nothern Khakassia. Their study history is considered. Their belonging to the Tashtyk art tradition is proved. Costumes and attributes are also analyzed for which analogies from China and Xinjiang are noted. Performed figures can be presumably considered as foreigners far from Siberian regions, bearers of foreign traditions or their descendants connected with trading and missionary activity in the Nothern part of Central Asia.