Petroglyphs at Calmn-Varre: a new study

The authors re-documented the petroglyphs at Calmn-Varre on the Ponoy River in the Kola Peninsula discovered in 1973 (Fig. 1). The site has 287 figures depicted on the surface of 10 randomly lying boulders (Fig. 2). More than half of the recorded figures are represented by ‘dots’ and ‘spots’ of various forms as well as partially lost pecked images which are not identifiable and cannot be interpreted (Fig. 3). At the same time the boulders do not feature boats, ichthyomorphs and ornithomorphs. All figures are silhouetted images. Zoomorphs represented in profile account for one third of images. The zoomorph list includes one ‘snake; the remainder images on the list are bipeds, tripedals and quadrupeds. Other images include 18 anthropomorphs shown full face, two hoof prints, nine geometrical figures and six cup-shaped depressions pecked into the surface. Calmn-Varre stands out from other sites with a small number of figures in having a greater number of well-defined compositions: we can count from 9 to 20 (Fig...