New motives and compositions of the Kanozero petroglyphs

(On materials of new findings of 2016-2019).

Abstract

The Kanozero Lake is an overflow of the Umba River located in the southern part of the Kola Peninsula (Murmansk Region, Russia) (Fig. 1) in 26 km distance of the White Sea. First petroglyphs were discovered by Yuri Ivanov in 1997 (Likhachev 1999, Likhachev 2011, Likhachev 2018a). According to the latest catalog (Kolpakov, Shumkin 2012: 16) over 1200 petroglyphs were identified in 18 panels on three islands (Kamenniy Island, Eloviy Island, Goreliy Island) and one “mainland” rocky outcrop (Odinokaya Rock). Between 2016 and 2019, there were discovered five new panels of petroglyphs (Likhachev 2020) and started the process of documenting new figures in known panels including Kamenniy 7 panel (Likhachev 2017) and Eloviy 3 panel (Likhachev 2021b, Kolpakov 2020). According to my data which now still processing the total number of petroglyphs at the Kanozero complex now is more than 1600.