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  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-034.jpg
  • Mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand on a hillside called Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-002.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-035.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-032.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-030.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-025.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-019.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-012.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-008.jpg
  • A mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stands at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-021.jpg
  • Mysterious, 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones stand at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain"), near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-005.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh studies 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones and khirigsur burial mounds Ulaan Tolgoi near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-012.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh studies 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones and khirigsur burial mounds Ulaan Tolgoi near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-011.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain") site near Muren, in Hovgol Aimag (province). <br />
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    MGe 060629-001.jpg
  • A Gentoo Penguin collects stones for its nest at a rookery on Cuverville Island, Antarctica.
    ATe 080219-121.jpg
  • TIBET, China. Buddhist "mani" (prayer) stones.
    TS 3985.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands on a hillside called Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-004.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands on a hillside called Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia. The patterns probably depict a shamanistic breast plate.
    MGe 060630-003.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  Patterns are probably shamanistic symbols.<br />
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MS0702_060630_0117.NEF
    MGe 060630-005.jpg
  • A 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands on a hill called Ulaan Tolgoi ("Red Hill"), near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-004.jpg
  • Members of a Smithsonian Museum archaeology team monitor nightime laser scanning of bronze-age Deer Stones at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-007.jpg
  • MONGOLIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team monitors laser scanning of bronze-age Deer Stones at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-005.jpg
  • MONGOLIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team monitors laser scanning of bronze-age Deer Stones at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Muren, Mongolia. <br />
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    MGe 060628-003.jpg
  • Members of a Smithsonian Museum archaeology team monitor nightime laser scanning of bronze-age Deer Stones at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-002.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-021.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-020.jpg
  • A pre-Incan (Chachapoyan) nail stone sculpture.
    PE 3403.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone stands by sheep pastures near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060701-006.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-033.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in foreground (from same era).<br />
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MS0702_060701_0112.NEF
    MGe 060701-032.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in foreground (from same era).<br />
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MS0702_060701_0017.NEF
    MGe 060701-030.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-029.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at a site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  An ancient Deer Stone stands in the foreground (from the same era).
    MGe 060701-025.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Nick Wiltsie reads beside 2700+ year-old deer stone &  khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.
    MGe 060630-031.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan ("Bayaraa") unearths ancient horse skull in a 2700+ year-old, bronze age  "khirigsuur" burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia., Mongolia., Mongolia.  A deer stone of similar age is in the background.
    MGe 060626-009.jpg
  • Cottonwood shoots on stone beach next to West Fork of Gallatin River.
    MT 4423.jpg
  • Stone wall at Chachapoyan fort at Cuelap pre-dates the Inca.
    PE 1514.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Dr. William Fitzhugh studies 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones and khirigsur burial mounds at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.
    MGe 060630-023.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies 2700+ year-old,  khirigsur burial mound at site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.  The burning dung is used to control gnats & biting insects. <br />
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MS0702_060701_0145.NEF
    MGe 060701-038.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team studies a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-027.jpg
  • Icicles hang over a stone-filled stream in the Warwan Valley of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Rock patterns, possibly symbolizing jaguar eyes, adorn a wall at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture that dominated northern Peru about 600 years ago.
    PE 1598.jpg
  • Rebuilt structures of unclear usage dominate Choquequirao, an Inca royal ceremonial site set high on a remote ridge in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba.
    PT 4042.jpg
  • Rock patterns, possibly symbolizing jaguar eyes, adorn a wall at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture that dominated northern Peru about 600 years ago.
    PE 4442.jpg
  • Magellanic Penguins leave and enter the ocean at a stony beach on Magdalena Island in the Strait of Magellan, Chile.
    CHe 080202-254.jpg
  • Chilean cruise ship Mare Australis anchors near huge Magellanic Penguin rookery on Magdalena Island in the Strait of Magellan, Chile.
    CHe 080202-026.jpg
  • Chilean cruise ship Mare Australis anchors near huge Magellanic Penguin rookery on Magdalena Island in the Strait of Magellan, Chile.
    CHe 080202-022.jpg
  • Magellanic Penguins leave and enter the ocean at a stony beach on Magdalena Island in the Strait of Magellan, Chile.
    CHe 080202-009.jpg
  • Tiny colorful pebbles, rounded by wave action, provide the namesake for Pebble Beach, part of Bean Hollow State Beach on the Pacific Ocean coast of California.
    CAe 150804-144.jpg
  • Tree roots entangle Inca ruins in the upper Amazon cloud forests.
    PE 3744.jpg
  • Glacier Lake, Logan Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada.	A camper unpacks in his tent under Mount Harrison Smith.
    NB 0683.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist religious icons, including prayer flags, a mani [prayer] wall and a sacred chorten frame Mounts Ama Dablam (R), Lhotse & Everest (far left, only very top showing.)
    KB 1219.jpg
  • Stony beach on Taraba Sound below the Cordillera Sarmiento de Gamboa.
    CE 5847.jpg
  • A lonely flower contrasts with the vast, overgrazed emptiness of the Gobi Desert, near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-077.jpg
  • Lichens cover rocks on a beach on Carcass Island in Britain's  Falkland Islands.
    FIe 080305-313.jpg
  • Magellanic Penguins leave and enter the ocean at a stony beach on Magdalena Island in the Strait of Magellan, Chile.
    CHe 080202-243.jpg
  • Magellanic Penguins leave and enter the ocean at a stony beach on Magdalena Island in the Strait of Magellan, Chile.
    CHe 080202-223.jpg
  • Mount Chephren rises above Waterfowl Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
    ABe 120921-271.jpg
  • Mount Chephren rises above Waterfowl Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
    ABe 120921-268.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist and carvings of buddhas and saints prayers are carved on rocks - even a yak skull - in a Mani wall in southeastern Tibet, China. (“Mani” is from the prayer “Om mani padme hung,” (Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus.)
    TS 3983.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist and carvings of buddhas and saints prayers are carved on rocks - even a yak skull - in a Mani wall in southeastern Tibet, China. (“Mani” is from the prayer “Om mani padme hung,” (Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus.)
    TS 3978.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET. Village east of Nyingchi, where stone walls surround potato fields and stones hold shingles onto roofs.
    CF 2290.jpg
  • Sythian era petroglyphs in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley probably date at least 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-199.jpg
  • Sythian era petroglyphs in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley probably date at least 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-194.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-185.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist prayer (mani) stones surround Tengboche Monastery in ithe Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.  Shot in 1974, before the modern onslaught of climbers and trekkers began & this temple burned & was rebuilt more safely.
    IP 0519.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-206.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-205.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-204.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-203.jpg
  • Sythian era petroglyphs in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley probably date at least 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-198.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-197.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-196.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-195.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-193.jpg
  • Sythian era petroglyphs in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley probably date at least 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-192.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-189.jpg
  • Sythian era petroglyphs in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley probably date at least 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-188.jpg
  • Sythian era petroglyphs in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley probably date at least 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-187.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-184.jpg
  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Tibetan Buddhist mani stones, carved with prayers and placed in a wall beside a trail in Thame village, Khumbu region.
    K 0509.jpg
  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Tibetan Buddhist mani stones, carved with prayers and placed in a wall beside Mount Everest Base Camp trail, Khumbu region
    K 0320.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-035.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  <br />
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MS0702_060628_0415.NEF
    MGe 060628-015.jpg
  • A 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-014.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-044.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-043.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.
    MGe 060628-042.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  <br />
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MS0702_060628_0487.NEF
    MGe 060628-031.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Muren.  <br />
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MS0702_060628_0435.NEF
    MGe 060628-025.jpg
  • A mysterious 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai, near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060628-020.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh studies a 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake  Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-020.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain") site near Muren, in Hovgol Aimag (province). <br />
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MS0702_060629_0416.NEF
    MGe 060629-033.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ushkin Uver ("Lung Mountain") site near Muren, in Hovgol Aimag (province). <br />
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MS0702_060629_0340.NEF
    MGe 060629-016.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) studies carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.   Sasha is a renowned pioneer of Mongolian archaeology, some of it pursued & published during Soviet era.
    MGe 060626-018.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.   <br />
MS0702_060626_0161.NEF
    MGe 060626-015.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.  Sasha is a pioneer Mongolian researcher, who did much work and publication during the Soviet era.   <br />
MS0702_060626_0135.NEF
    MGe 060626-014.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.  Sasha is a pioneer Mongolian researcher, who did much work and publication during the Soviet era.  <br />
MS0702_060626_0129.NEF
    MGe 060626-013.jpg
  • 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgai site near Lake Erkhel & Moron, Mongolia.  A "khirigsuur" burial mound of similar age is in the background.
    MGe 060626-003.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-017.jpg
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