One of the most common characters in Mongolian rock paintings is cattle. dozens of rock paintings from Paleolithic period, Ishgen Tolgoi and Khoid Tsenkher cave of Mankhan soum and  Chandmani Khar Uzuur of Buyant soum of Khovd province, Khad Uzuur rock paintings of Sagil soum of Uvs province, Mojoo rock painting from Mesolithic period, Tsagaan Salaa-Baga Oigor, Togtokh’s shil, Bichigt, Baruun Mogoi, Tevsh Mountain rock paintings from Neolithic, Bronze and Early Iron age periods, in depicted cattlesResearchers believe that cattles have been domesticated since ancient times, and domesticated cattles became more important than horses and camels in the men’s life and farming of the Bronze Age.

           Cattles, cattles with loads on their backs, and people driving cattles etc, are often   depicted in the rock paintings commonly in the mountainous regions of the Altai Mountains, which is a fact of the importance of cattle in the lives of people at that time.