стела Победы в Казани

Steles are common across the Caucasus and the steppe, and the Atlas's records there belong to several unrelated traditions. In the Armenian highlands the khachkar is a medieval cross-stone, described in its own article. Further east, on the steppe of Mongolia and southern Siberia, deer stones are ancient megaliths carved with symbols. Of the 1,500 or so found so far, about 1,300 are in Mongolia. The name comes from their carved depictions of flying deer, and they are associated with the late Bronze Age peoples of the deer stone-khirigsuur complex, named for the neighbouring khirigsuur tombs. The regional background, “Caucasus and Eurasian steles”, is given below.

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