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Rock ArtSite Name: UghtasarCountry: Armenia
NOTE: This site is 61.611 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Sissian Nearest Village: Karahoonj
Latitude: 39.685860N Longitude: 46.052410E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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DrewParsons has visited here
It lies north-east of Karahoonj at the Mt. Ughtasar (Camel Mountain) about 17.5km NNE of the town of Sisian. It is just reached by four-wheel drive jeeps in good weather (July-August). There are thousands of carvings in an attitude of 3000 to 3300m, the earliest ones are from the Palaeolithic Era (12,000 BCE).
Additional information added by Drew Parsons in September 2016: I visited this site in September 2016. It is very remote and requires a good four wheel drive vehicle with a very experienced driver to reach. However, it is well worth the effort. There are several drivers in Sisian who can take you to the site - it is about 25 km from Sisian by track and the trip takes around 90 minutes drive one way. The petroglyphs are spread on the darker flat faced rocks around the crater lake and range in age from quite recent doodlings by lonely shepherds to Bronze age pictures of bowmen through to the oldest dated at around 12000 BC. The drive to the site cost 35000 AMD (Armenian Drams ie US$70) for the vehicle and driver in September 2016. I used Levon Vardanyan [[email protected]] who was very reliable and was not concerned as to how long I spent at the site. His parents also run a guest house in Sisian.
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