CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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On the way it passes Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Ag, Gol Mod I and back through Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Ag. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Out on the steppe of central Mongolia, there are stone monuments that have stood for around three thousand years. Deer stones are tall granite slabs, sometimes taller than a man, carved with images of flying deer, their long antlers sweeping back along the stone, along with belts, tools, and a sun and moon. They were erected in the Late Bronze Age, roughly between the fifteenth and seventh centuries BC, by nomadic herders who also built stone mounds and square fenced burials known as khirigsuur. The stones seem to mark graves of important people, and the deer motif has been interpreted as a vehicle for the soul to travel to the sky, though nobody knows exactly.
Read the complete Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a write-up.
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Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a is where the day begins. Next is Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Ag.
On the open grassland of north-central Mongolia, tall grey slabs of granite stand in lines, tilted slightly towards the sky, with strange carvings on their sides. These are deer stones, and the name comes from the flying deer with long antlers that are carved on them, stylised as streams of curving lines. They were raised by Bronze Age herders about three thousand years ago, probably as memorials to important men, and some stand three or four metres tall. Mongolia has well over a thousand, more than anywhere else in the world, and the best-known groups lie around the Khangai and the northern mountains, within the broader region of the Gol Mod sites that make up this part of the map.
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Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Ag comes up 83 km in. Next is Gol Mod I.
Gol Mod sits in the open grass country of central Mongolia, where the land rolls away in long folds beneath an enormous sky and the only landmarks are herders' white felt tents, gers, and the occasional lonely mountain. The place is known to archaeologists for its cemeteries of the Xiongnu, the nomadic confederation that dominated the steppe two thousand years ago and rivalled Han China, and the graves of their elite are found in valleys like this.
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165 km in you reach Gol Mod I. Next is back through Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Ag.
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back through Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Ag, late in the day. Next is Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a.
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Read the complete Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a write-up.
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Back at Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a. That is the ride.
Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a → Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Ag is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Ag → Gol Mod I is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Gol Mod I → back through Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Ag is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Ag → Bronze Age Complex Site with Deer Stones a is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.