Art-A-Tsolum – 10 World’s Oldest Things From Armenia – Depictions of Agriculture – 7,500 years old
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Depictions of Agriculture – 7,500 years old
Armenia is home to numerous sites containing ancient petroglyphs with images of scenes of agriculture and domestication of animals. On the slopes of volcanic massifs of Armenia, 3000 meters above sea level, one can find whole galleries of rock drawings of agricultural motives.
Some of these petroglyphs are dated as far as the 12th -11th millennium BC. People from later eras (Chalcolithic and Bronze Age) continued to record their prowess and beliefs on the stones.
The largest variety and number of carvings date to this period and the early Iron Age. The first farmers depicted the great history of agronomics in these petroglyphic drawings. The symmetric arrangement of predominantly zoomorphic heroes was an indispensable attribute of the new times.
In his chronology (Timeline of the Development of the Horse, 2007) Beverley Davis describes: “Petroglyphs found in Armenia (one of the possible sites for the Indo-European homeland) show the oldest pictures of men driving chariots, wagons, and plows, with horses doing the pulling.”
Source: 1) http://ayfwest.org/news/ughtasar-the-petroglyphs-of-armenia/
2) http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp177_horses.pdf
www.peopleofar.com/2014/12/17/10-worlds-oldest-things-from-armenia/
