ម៉ុងហ្គោលី៖ ភាពខុសគ្នារវាងកំណែនានា

{{Main|History of Mongolia}}

 

[[File:DeerstoneMGL.jpg|thumb|left|Deer stones in Mongolia]]

Sites such as ''Tsagaan Agui'' (White Cave) in [[Bayankhongor Province]] show that [[Homo erectus]] inhabited Mongolia from 800,000 years ago.<ref>P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Steven L. Kuhn, Kristopher W. Kerry-The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe, p.207</ref> Modern humans reached Mongolia approximately 40,000 years ago during the [[Upper Paleolithic]]. The ''Khoid Tsenkher Cave''<ref name="Novgorodova">Eleanora Novgorodova, Archäologische Funde, Ausgrabungsstätten und Skulpturen, in ''Mongolen (catalogue)'', pp. 14–20</ref> in [[Khovd Province]] shows lively pink, brown and red ochre paintings (20,000 years ago) of mammoths, lynx, bactrian camels and ostriches, earning it the nickname "the [[Lascaux]] of Mongolia". The [[Mal'ta Venus]] (21,000 years ago) testifies to the level of Upper Paleolithic art in northern Mongolia, though Mal'ta is now part of Russia.