Oyutolgoi LLC funds heritage protection work by US-Mongolian team

A joint US-Mongolian team, selected from among 13 bidders, has been busy preparing the work plan of a program to protect the country’s cultural heritage in areas covered by the Oyutolgoi project. The members of the team are from the Mongolian Academy of Science, the Centre of Paleontology, the Institute of History from the Mongolian side, and the Statistical Research Center of Arizona University in the USA.



The team began work in July and hopes to finish work on the plan within a year. O. Tserennadmid, chief specialist of the team, says their main objective is preservation and protection of cultural heritage, both tangible and cultural, and also generating popular awareness of the need to cooperate. Ch. Amartuvshin of the Archeological Institute said several sites dating to the Bronze Age have been discovered in the southern region where copper was manually extracted and then smelted. Now, with funding from the Oyutolgoi project, more detailed studies can be undertaken.

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