[Gerry Reinhart-Waller]
> QUESTION: Where are the Saymaly-Tash petroglyphs located?
Saymaly-Tash (in Kirghiz 'Patterned Stone') is a place situated at a height of 3000 m above sea level at the North-East slopes
of the Fergana ridge (Inner Tien Shan).
You can find this place on a map of the SIEM
http://siem.newmail.ru
(the Early Bronze Age map - the arrow of the gray dotted line with the question mark directly points this place. Having clicked
the gray area of the "Afanas'yevo branch" or the gray rectangle of the "Surtandy-Botay c." you can read some comments on it.)
There are at least 3 chronological groups of local petroglyphs: the earlier layer of the Bronze Age (with stylistical traits of
both IE and South Asiatic areals), the later layer of the Bronze Age (typical 'mature' IE) and more recent layer(s) in Old
Turkic and 'Beast' styles.
Alexander Stolbov