Document Type : Research Paper
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This article is a report of the newly found collection of rock engravings, including drawings and symbols, belonging to pre-hieroglyph era. This collection is the largest ever found rock engravings in Asia and Iran. The importance of this collection is not in the size of the pictures, hut in the great number of the drawings and the repetition of the symbols, and their great variability in terms of content, rare scenes, and unique pre-historic images. The pictures include drawing of mammals- some already extinct in the region- birds, hunting tools, and unknown devices. Overall, they can shed some light on the pre-historic life of man in this region or the world. Definitely'! the findings will be very interesting to and useful for archeologists, anthropologists, linguists, historians of arts and inventions. geographers, and ecologists.
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