Guide
The rock pictures at Camuslu are on a basalt outcrop on the eastern slopes of Aladağ, five kilometres from Camuslu village in the Kağızman district and fifty from Kars. They form two panels, one large and one small. The large panel begins four metres above the ground, runs fourteen metres long and about four metres high; the small one is on the eastern continuation of the same wall.
The panels carry human and animal figures. The wild goats, deer, fawns and donkeys cut into the rock indicate that this region was wooded in the Palaeolithic and suited to groups living by hunting and gathering. On the second panel it has been established that the pictures were worked over at a later date with obsidian tools. In the nearby Tombul Tepe and Kurbanaga caves, stone tools, hearths and large ceremonial hand axes of the Lower Palaeolithic have been found, and the Kurbanaga cave also holds Bronze Age pottery and wall paintings showing hunting equipment such as lassos and nets.
