Bitik-Tash
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Bitik-Tash ("written stone") is a village in the Karatau foothills, in the Karatau planning zone of the Autonomous Tribal Regions (ATR). Its population is about 360 (2022 estimate).[1] A boulder-choked ravine above the village contains several rock shelters and more than 400 petroglyphs, most of them ibex, camels, horses and archers, which archaeologists date mainly to the Bronze Age and the Saka period. Flint tools of Lower Paleolithic type have been collected from the terraces below the ravine since the 1970s. The site has no formal protection and is watched over by the village elders.[2]
References
- ^ United Nations Mission in Irad (2022). Settlements and Services in the Karatau Zone. Kara-Oi.
- ^ Talas State University Press (2009). Archaeological Map of the Karatau and the Kyzylkum Fringe. Talas.
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