Abstract
This article covers the area of knowledge at the intersection of two disciplines: archeology and art history, based on archaeological evidence, which carries the information of the traditional culture of the early medieval population of Kazakhstan. Summarized the accumulated material in the image of a horse in the early medieval rock art found in Kazakhstan and chronological, stylistic and compositional originality of the image are considered. The methodological basis of the study is set general historical and archaeological research methods. Images of a horse can be divided into several groups, which have not only typological similarities in the image, but also provide an opportunity to make some conclusions about the role of the image of a horse in the views of the medieval nomads.