Endera forntida samhällen gjorde stora bilder i landskapet, s.k. geoglyfer, genom att prägla vidsträckta linjer in i noggrant utmätta former. Mest känd är dom s.k. "Nasca-linjer" från Nasca-provinsen i Chile, där man från luften kan se perfekta bilder av kolibri-fåglar och fjärilar som enorma 'ritningar' i landskapet.
Nu har man utrett en fynd av en liknande "terraformning" i Ryssland, norr om Kazakstan.
The newly discovered geoglyph faces to the north (south is at the top of the image) and depicts an elk or deer. Visible from a nearby ridge it has four legs, two antlers and an elongated muzzle. It is made of stone and recent archaeological work indicates that it dates to somewhere between the 6th millennium and 3rd millennium BC, thousands of years before the Nazca Lines were created. Today it is covered with soil but, back when it was first constructed, it would have looked "white and slightly shiny" researchers say.
http://www.livescience.com/23884-nazca-lines-russia-geoglyphs.html