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    Ukok Plateau (Russian: Укок) is a plateau covered by grasslands located in southwestern Siberia, in the Altai Mountains region of Russia near the borders...
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    Ethnography in Novosibirsk. It was Polosmak's fourth season working on the Ukok Plateau where the institute was continuing its research into the early habitation...
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  • Reservoir since 1960-67. Many other Afanasievo sites were found in the Ukok Plateau, and as far south as the area around Ürümqi (Tuqiu), near the Tarim Basin...
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    and Katun Natural Reserves, Lake Teletskoye, Belukha Mountain, and the Ukok Plateau. As stated in the UNESCO description of the site, "the region represents...
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    A major find are the Pazyryk burials, which were discovered on the Ukok Plateau in the 1940s. The finds are notably for revealing the form of mummification...
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    Siberian Russia on the Ukok Plateau, near the borders with China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. The archaeological site on the Ukok Plateau associated with the...
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  • was conducting archaeological reconnaissance of the high and barren Ukok Plateau when she discovered a spectacular archaeological find; a female mummy...
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    040 m (6,690 ft) although not all of the nests were occupied. In the Ukok Plateau (within the Altais), the mean nearest neighbor distance was found to...
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    Nature Reserve. That reserve along with the Katun Nature Reserve and the Ukok Plateau Nature Refuge were listed as one of UNESCO World Natural Heritage Sites...
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    of Scythian (Saka) Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley and the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, south of the modern city of Novosibirsk...
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    flanked by the great plateau of Mongolia, the transition being affected gradually by means of several minor plateaus, such as Ukok (2,380 m (7,810 ft))...
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  • Scythian culture in Ukraine. The type site are the Pazyryk burials of the Ukok Plateau. Many artifacts and human remains have been found at this location, including...
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    of Siberia. Together with Lake Teletskoye, Belukha Mountain and the Ukok Plateau it forms a natural UNESCO World Heritage Site entitled "Golden Mountains...
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    mammals live in temperate forest, taiga, or tundra biomes. The areas of Ukok-Sailiugem in the southern Altai Republic and Khar Us Nuur and Uvs Nuur (Ubsunur...
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    Mountains. In the South Siberian Mountains, it inhabits grasslands on the Ukok Plateau and in the Altai, Kuray and Saylyugem Mountains. It is also present in...
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    ago. The UNESCO World Heritage Site "Golden Mountains" protects the Ukok Plateau, on which there are many standing stones and kurgans. Although archaeologists...
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    These were located in Pazyryk burials finds. These saddles, found in the Ukok Plateau, Siberia were dated to 500-400 BC. Iconographic evidence of a predecessor...
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  • and Katun Natural Reserves, Lake Teletskoye, Belukha Mountain, and the Ukok Plateau; Lake Baikal, which forms part of the eastern border of the region, and...
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  • environmental organizations because it was planned to run across the Ukok Plateau, which is the natural habitat of the snow leopard and other endangered...
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  • tomb at Angkor Cambodia, and the other in the ruined city located at Ukok Plateau, Siberia. Her father tasks her to find and destroy both pieces before...
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    including the Altai Mountains, the site of the Pazyryk burials of the Ukok Plateau. By the late 3rd century the Xiongnu monarch Touman even sent his eldest...
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    mummies dating to c. 500 BC were extracted from burial mounds on the Ukok plateau during the 1990s. Their tattooing involved animal designs carried out...
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    Ob Podkamennaya Tunguska Popigay Upper Angara Uvs Nuur Yana Yenisey Ukok Plateau—part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site The West Siberian Plain, consisting...
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    Ukok Plateau, one of the last remnants of the mammoth steppe...
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    discovered the Siberian Ice Maiden, a Scytho-Siberian woman, on the Ukok Plateau in the Altai Mountains near the Mongolian border. The mummy was naturally...
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  • information related to Tinagma mongolicum. A contribution to the knowledge of the Lepidoptera fauna of the Ukok plateau in south-eastern Altai, Russia v t e...
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    Depression Saylyugemsky National Park Shorsky National Park Denisova Cave Ukok Plateau Pazyryk Culture Lykov family South Siberian Mountains UNESCO World Heritage...
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  • Mountains of Altai Sikhote-Alin Uvs Nuur Basin Wrangel Island Putorana Plateau Lena Pillars Dauria The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
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    Snow cock, and Golden eagle. On the Russian side of the border, the Ukok Plateau, adjacent to the Tavan Bogd massif from the north, is part of the UNESCO...
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    Indo-European languages. The Pazyryk burials of the Pazyryk culture in the Ukok Plateau in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC are thought to be of Saka chieftains...
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