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Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash Cave
Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash Cave by 27for27
Photo by Martina Rúčková
Shulgan Tash, Bashkortostan by Martina Rúčková
The Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash Cave comprise almost 200 red ochre wall paintings from the Late Paleolithic.
The paintings are found in several chambers of the limestone cave system. The cave is over 3km long and consists of two storeys. Geometric motifs, steppe animals such as mammoths and bison, and human beings are depicted. Shulgan-Tash Cave is also seen as a cult sanctuary and legends from the ancient Bashkorts are attached to it.
Community Perspective: this site has been unreviewed so far. Tourists can only visit the outer rooms of the cave on guided tours and there is a museum with replicas.
Site Info
Official Information
- Full Name
- Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash Cave (ID: 1743)
- Country
- Russia
- Status
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Inscribed 2025
Site history
History of Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash Cave
- 2025: Inscribed
- Meets criterion 3
- 2018: Added to Tentative List
- Added to tentative list
- Type
- Cultural
- Criteria
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Links
- UNESCO
- whc.unesco.org
All Links
UNESCO.org
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Community Information
- Community Category
- Archaeological site: Rock Art
Travel Information
Recent Connections
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Late Pleistocene
"Through radiocarbon dating, cultural l…
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World Biosphere Reserves
Part of Bashkir Urals Biosphere Reserve…
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Archaeological potential
"A significant proportion of the sedime…
Connections of Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash Cave
- History
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Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
"A. V. Ryumin correctly determined the time of creating the drawings as the Paleolithic." (official description)
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- World Heritage Process
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Perfect Inscriptions
2025
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- WHS on Other Lists
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World Biosphere Reserves
Part of Bashkir Urals Biosphere Reserve
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- Timeline
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Late Pleistocene
"Through radiocarbon dating, cultural layers within the cave containing painted rock fragments and ochre were dated to 20,600-16,500 calibrated years BP. Carbonate deposits over the paintings corroborated their Late Palaeolithic origin" (AB ev)
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- Science and Technology
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Recorded cultural discoveries
Alexander Ryumin (1959) -
Archaeological potential
"A significant proportion of the sediments are yet to be excavated, thus providing ample potential for further discoveries" (AB ev)
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- WHS Names
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Untranslated Toponyms
The name "Shulgantash" comes from the Bashkir language. "Tash" in translation - a stone, and Shulgan - a river that flows into the White near the entrance to the cave. (Russian Wikipedia)
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