Altai Mountains

American  

Or Altay Mountains

plural noun

1. a mountain range in central Asia, mostly in Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, and the S Russian Federation. Highest peak, Belukha, 15,157 feet (4,506 meters).

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Altai Mountains British  

/ ɑːlˈtaɪ /

plural noun

1. a mountain system of central Asia, in W Mongolia, W China, and S Russia. Highest peak: Belukha, 4506 m (14 783 ft)

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Altai Mountains

The settlement is also close to copper and tin deposits in the nearby Altai Mountains, which would have supplied the key raw materials needed for its bronze production.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2025

Pääbo and his team also sequenced the genome of Denisova, a hominin whose fossils were found in 2008 in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in Siberia.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2022

From a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai Mountains in Russia, he discovered a new species of early hominid, the Denisovans.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2022

His continuing survey of melting ice margins in the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia has produced artifacts that upended some of the most basic archaeological assumptions about the area’s history.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

At noon we were paralleling another mighty range, the little known Altai Mountains, and at one o'clock we passed the Zaisan Nor, the great lake which forms the headwaters for the Irtysh River.

From The Image and the Likeness by John Scott Campbell