Bars Khot

Bars Khot lies beside the Kherlen River amid the grasslands of eastern Mongolia. Here the remains of several walled enclosures stand close together, bearing witness to communities that built permanent centres on the steppe. One belonged to the Khitan period and another to the Mongol era; a still older enclosure dates to the Xiongnu. The successive sites show the enduring importance of this river valley to peoples whose lives also involved movement across the surrounding grasslands.