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Zone code: IND-ZAN-CHK-Zo01
Choukyil
Longitude: 76.776862
Latitude: 33.542541
Altitude: 3578 [m.a.s.l.]
The site is located at the foot of the cliff to the east of the first houses in Chimiling coming from Tungri. The site is about 200m from the road that runs along the river.
Chou=eau/kyil=circle

canal, cultivated area, fortified structure
plateau, slope
Comments on the environment: On the edge of a marshy meadow, between Chimiling and the old Tungri fort.

gathered
few

open air
petroglyph
other
boulder

historic

Visits: Martin, Vernier (2004): systematic
good
Comments on the condition: none

General statistics for the zone

item #
rocks 3
surfaces 4
motifs 22
scenes 1
See also detailed motif and scene statistics for the site

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Rocks

Detailed motif and scene statistics for the zone

  • anthropomorph: 3
  • architecture: 2
  • artefact: 0
  • indeterminate: 4
  • inscription: 1
  • other: 0
  • plant: 0
  • sign: 0
  • zoomorph: 12
  • battle: 0
  • confrontation: 0
  • domestication: 0
  • duel: 0
  • hunt: 1
  • image and text: 0
  • inter-species group: 0
  • intra-species group: 0
  • mating: 0
  • none: 0
  • other: 0
  • pair: 0
  • predation: 0
  • religious: 0
  • ceremony: 0
  • fresh: 0
  • clear: 0
  • medium: 0
  • dark: 18
  • very dark: 4
  • unknown: 0
  • abraded: 0
  • combination: 0
  • hammered: 22
  • incised: 0
  • painted: 0
  • pecked: 0
  • unknown: 0
  • contemporary: 0
  • historic: 3
  • pre-historic: 0
  • unknown: 19
  • front view: 0
  • left: 0
  • right: 0
  • reading sense: 4
  • aerial: 0
  • none: 18
  • unknown: 0
  • contour: 6
  • silhouette: 15
  • combination: 0
  • unknown: 1
  • rectilinear: 0
  • curvilinear: 0
  • parallel: 2
  • rectoparallel: 0
  • rectangular: 0
  • rectotriangular: 0
  • triangular: 0
  • bitriangular: 0
  • Eurasian animal style: 0
  • other: 0
  • non specific: 20