Exploration in the southern of the Semipalatinsk region

The expedition of the Semipalatinsk Pedagogical Institute and the Regional Museum of Local Lore conducted surveillance in the Abai district of the Semipalatinsk region.

A Bronze Age burial ground was discovered 7 km southeast of the village of Bestamak. It includes six stone barrows, united by two central barrows, from which two large "mustache" 50-56 m long and 3 m wide extend in the east and southeast directions—10 m, consisting of flat stones and littered with small cobblestones from above. A grave pit 0.40 m deep, oriented along the east-west axis, contained the cremation. The burial had only one jar-type pot without an ornament.

The second Bronze Age burial ground was found 2 km north of the village of Bestamak. It consists of 54 stone mounds and mounds "with a mustache." The most significant structures have a diameter of up to 30 m, small - 9 m; their height is 0.6-1.5 m. All mounds are lined with huge slabs and covered with small stones from above.

30 km from the Kainar village, in the Koitas mountains, next to the Tanbalytas (which means "drawings on the stone") wintering rock carvings were found. The drawings are made with dot technique on large boulders, different in mineral composition from the rocks that make up these mountains. A ridge of dark gray boulders stretches for 3–4 km, 60–80 m wide. The drawings occupy naturally smoothed surfaces, and the figures themselves are compositionally correct on the planes. There are 230 individual figures. These are mainly goats, deer, camels, horses, people. Plot drawings (77) reproduce all the most exciting aspects of the life of the people who drew them. Here we see hunting for wild animals, catching elk, moments of domestication of horses, camels, ritual dances, and military clashes. The figures of animals are most often made realistically, but there is a significant schematism in the images of people.