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Verified places tagged “auroch”

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🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art

Ughtasar Petroglyph Field

Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age (5000–1000 BCE) · Neolithic Syunik pastoralists, Kura-Araxes, Trialeti, Lchashen-Metsamor

Armenian volcanic lake at 3300 m with 10,000 basalt ibex-chariot petroglyphs.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Hallan Çemi Tepesi

Epipalaeolithic / PPNA transitional (Natufian-related → Pre-Pottery Neolithic) · Sason Epipaleolithic → PPNA Upper Tigris foragers

Epipalaeolithic-PPNA hamlet (c.11ky BP) with C-shaped communal auroch-bucrania building — earliest pig management and pre-Göbekli communal architecture, Sason Stream.