Ethnic costumes are highly significant cultural objects, as the traditional costumes are great representations of the uniqueness Mongolian nomadic lifestyle and traditions.
Stone tool
Size: 12,8 x 11 x 5,4 cm
Paleolithic (750 000 -120 000 B.C.) White cave, Bayanlig, Bayanhongor province. The stone tool found from White cave site. The site is located in the South West Mongolia. Archaeologists excavated 14 different layers and found many examples of early Stone Age tools, which are at least 30,000 to 40,000 years old, including scrapers and arrowheads. The layers were dated in laboratories in Russia and America using three different techniques: carbon-14, hermoluminescence and geomagnetically analysis. The oldest layer found within the cave has been dated to approximately 520,000 years old. The oldest of all the layers was found outside the cave entrance and has been dated to approximately 730,000 years old.
Deer stone
Size: 260 х 23,5 х 37 см
Bronze age (3000-400 B.C.) Uushigiin uvur, Burentogtokh, Khuvsgul province. Deer Stone monuments are unique memorials of history and culture. These decorated standing stones have been found in both Asia andeastern Europe, and date from the beginning of the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. To date, researchers have recorded around 700 Deer Stones, of which 550 are located in Mongolia. The stones take their name from the finely carved deer which are found on one or more of their four sides, although the deer can also be accompanied by depictions of the sun, moon, a mirror, a belt, a pentagonal pattern, a knife, an axe, or a bow and arrow. A few stones are carved with representations of other animals such as a boar, a horse and a tiger. The Deer Stones are often encircled by small stone rings, excavation of which has revealed the skulls, neck bones and hooves of horses. These monuments have been dated to 2000-1000 BC.
