
One of three striped carnivores carved on a boulder
- Location
- Alchi, Ladakh, India
- Date
- Iron Age (ca. 700–100 BCE)
- Material
- rock
- Photo Credit
- photograph by J. V. Bellezza
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Alchi Petroglyph Field
Ladakh, India; Iron Age (ca. 700–100 BCE)
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