Tamgaly (Kazakh: Таңбалы, romanized: Tañbalı) is a petroglyph site in the Zhetysu of Kazakhstan.
The earliest of the petroglyphs of Tamgaly date from the Bronze Age (about 3,000 years ago), when the area was populated by the precursors to the Saka/Scythian people, and the most recent from the 18th or 19th century.
They tend to have a naturalistic allure with the range of images including anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and syncretic subjects.
Examples include solar deities (sun-heads), disguised personages, men with clubs, archers with wolf masks, worshippers, armed warriors, animal and human sacrifices, erotic scenes, birthing women, chariots, bulls, asses, horses, camels, boars, wolves, deer, etc.
Late Bronze Age and transitional period glyphs have less variety and are less technically rendered.
Horses, bulls, and wild animals remain but with more scenes of pastoral life added.