Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 43 (4) 2015

Annotation:  The Pleistocene Peopling of the North: Paleolithic Milestones and Thresholds Horizons In Northern Eu Transitional Middle to Upper Paleolithic Industries in the Rubas Valley, Coastal Dagestan Truncated-Faceted Pieces in the Paleolithic of Northern Asia Archaeological Sites on the Angara Bank from the Chadobets River to Boguchany: Findings of a Survey A Rare Bronze Sword from Lake Baikal Shore A Stone Abrasive Tile from Cheremkhova, Western Amur Region A Ceremonial Saddle from Altynkazgan, Mangyshlak Peninsula, Kazakhstan First Steps Towards a National Geographic Information System, “Archaeological Sites of Russia” Petroglyphs of Khabarovsk Territory: The Impact of the 2013 Amur and Ussuri Flooding Shakan: Kazakh 18th–19th Century Narrow-Bladed Battle Axes Mapping the Traditional Dress Types of Southwestern Siberian Old Believers (late 1800s–early 1900s) The Impact of Urbanization on the Transmission of Culture and Language of the Sakha People: A Sociol The Morphology of Human Teeth from Afontova Gora II, Southern Siberia, and Their Status Relative to A Paleogenetic Study of Pazyryk People Buried at Ak-Alakha-1, the Altai Mountains   

Petroglyphs of Khabarovsk Territory: The Impact of the 2013 Amur and Ussuri Flooding

E.G. Devlet and A.R. Laskin.

The Sikachi-Alyan and Sheremetyevo rock art sites are in the province of Lower Amur and Ussuri rock art. A history of their discovery is sketched, and their state of preservation is described. In 2013, many of them were damaged by extraordinary fl ooding. The effects of water and temperature fl uctuations and of wind erosion are assessed. In Sikachi-Alyan, the main factors of rock art decay were silting of boulders with petroglyphs, and their displacement caused by seasonal rise of water-level and ice-drift. In Sheremetyevo, destruction resulted mainly from bioagents. The removal of lichen revealed new petroglyphs, and known ones were recorded in details. Boulders with rare zoomorphic and anthropomorphic petroglyphs were discovered in the riverside bush and on the fl oodplain terrace.

Keywords: Rock art, petroglyphs, Russian Far East, Sikachi-Alyan, Sheremetyevo, cultural heritage.