Study of Archaeological Monuments of Mongolian Altai (based on field work in 2015)

In 2015 the participants of the Buyantsk Russian-Mongolian archaeological expedition carried out planned work in Bayan-Ulgii and Hovd aimags of Mongolia. The article provides an overview of the results. In addition to continuous inspections of certain areas that are important in terms of ethnic and cultural reconstruction, and fixing of any identified archaeological sites, the following activities were purposefully implemented: documenting petroglyphs and “deer” stones, detection of Turkic fences and medieval sculptures. A special study of previously detected residues highland settlement and copying of runic inscriptions should also be noted. These works were carried out on the well-known monuments (Chandman Har uzuur, Yamany-us and others.), and on those that are found and marked for the first time. These materials are an additional information base to fill particular content in the emerging cultural and chronological framework to understand the history of the peoples of the Mongolian Altai from antiquity to the ethnographic present. At present, an urgent task is to introduce into scientific circulation available scientific information on the archaeology of western Mongolia, in the form of monographs

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