Дорнод Монголын неолитын үеийн хүний дүрст чулуун “онго”-ын судалгаа

<jats:p>This article examines the Neolithic burials of the Norovlin Mountain in the Kherlen River basin in eastern Mongolia, and the stone tools found in the southern steppe region of the Moltsog region, including the Yellow Dune (Shar Mankh) of the Ulziit Spring and Tsagaan Tolgoi. East Asian hunter-gatherers began to depict human facial features on stone at the end of the Paleolithic, and is believed to be associated with ancestor worship, becoming more sophisticated after the beginning of the Neolithic. Human images began to be depicted in clay and as decorative motifs on pottery. Later, due to changes in material culture and technology, hunter-gatherers in the Neolithic began to form human images in stone, as well as in other materials such as bone and shell. The composition of these images changed through the early and middle Neolithic periods. Stone figures can be seen, not only as idols, but also tools that represented the social status of their owners and the work of religious practitioners. The Norovlin stone figure and the Ulziit Shar Mankh stone figure were both painted with ochre, which may have lent beauty and ritual power.</jats:p>