Events
Damage documentation, monitoring and conservation
For this purpose the specific method of damage documentation, which was widely used before in Norway and Tamgaly as a part of Documentation Standards was introduced to the scientists in Sarmishsai.
Essential accelerating element of images damage is human activity, perhaps due to the increasing of numbers of visitors to Sarmish Rock Art Site for last years. For the most part of Groups of Petroglyphs is the massive occurrence of graffiti done by chalk, paint, scratching and pecking. Rock panel surface, however, can be strongly damaged as results of neo-tectonic changes of landscapes, changes of seasonally and annually temperatures, water regime changes etc.
(Picture) Rocks with petroglyphs in Sarmishsay are strongly collapsed by both tectonic and anthropogenic impacts.
(Picture) Group 2, the boulder with two amazing Saka-Scythian horses (upper right). Further stone is detaching. An advice of a geo-morphologist is urgently needed to make conservative measures of the stone blocks.
During Conference and field Workshop, October 2004 the conservationists and other experts have discussed different measures related to special problem panels and situations (dangerous cracks, building surfaces, loose parts, water penetration etc.) in Sarmishsay Rock Art Complex.
(Pictures) Marina Reutova from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan and assistant Bakhridin Bolievare carrying out some conservational work at Conservationists make all that it is necessary for preservation of the Rock Art of Sarmishsay. Conservationists make all that it is necessary for preservation of the Rock Art of Sarmishsay.