Abstract
The article is devoted to the calculation of the exact number of deer figures on the surface of each of the well-preserved deer stones of the Uushigiin Ovor site from the Khovsgol aimag (province) near Moron city in Northern Mongolia. The idea of the research is that each deer stone of the Mongol-Transbaikalian style personified the primordial ancestor of the ancient collective (tribe?) that erected it, and at the same time its universe (macrocosm), and individual figures of deer corresponded to the social (most likely tribal) groups included in this collective. If the society that created the deer stones had a dual-exogamous tribal organization, then the number of deer (each of which symbolized a separate clan) on each stele should be even, and often a multiple of four. A calculation based on drawings of deer stones published by a Japanese expedition led by Takahama Shu confirmed our assumption.
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