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CategoriesPetroglyphs
Images pecked, incised or ground into rock rather than painted onto it.
🇳🇪 Niger · Rock art
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Nok Furnace Complex in Ténéré, Niger is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Iron Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Pastoral (6500–1500 BCE Bubalus to Caballine) · Messak pastoralists (Garamantian antecedents)
Messak documented by Mori 1960s and di Lernia, Bubalus 6500 BCE huge fauna.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Fremont (900–1200 CE) · Fremont (San Rafael)
Emery Rochester recorded by Gunnerson 1960s, Fremont horned shaman and migration trail.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Jornada Mogollon (900–1400 CE) · Jornada Mogollon
Three Rivers recorded by Schaafsma 1960s, Jornada style linked to Mimbres–Casas Grandes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Chalcolithic to Iron Age · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti-Vanadzor, Lchashen-Metsamor
Syunik 3300-m crater-lake plateau with >4000 black basalt petroglyphs, chariot and solar calendar boulders.
🇨🇱 Chile · Rock art
Archaic to Formative (4000 BCE – 500 CE) · Taltal-Chango maritime foragers (Caleta Huelén) of coastal Atacama
Chilean coastal boulders 2,500 balsa-whale fishing petroglyphs 4000 BCE–500 CE, earliest American mariners.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Eneolithic to Early Bronze Age · Sredny Stog, Yamnaya
East plateau of Kamyana Mohyla with 18 grottoes, Eneolithic stag and foot-sole pecked slabs.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Mid Holocene to Contact (3000 BCE – 1850 CE) · Aboriginal Australian (Wilyakali, surrounding Western Desert groups)
South Australian type site of Panaramitee track-circle style 3000 BCE–contact.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Early Nomadic · Saka, Wusun, Kangju
Upper second terrace 500 m inland with Saka animal style settlement context.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Neolithic to Medieval Chinese (Majiayao to Western Xia) · Northern Neolithic, Ordos Bronze, Xiongnu and Tangut
Ningxia southern Helan fringe cliffs with 1200 images Neolithic to Xixia, Ordos interface.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon projection onto pre-Inca petroglyph horizon Pre-Columbian to Early Colonial hypothesis · Inca Vilcabamba hypothesis projected onto pre-Inca rock art (unvalidated) / Machiguenga
Most-photographed Paititi candidate — sandstone mesa terraces above Pusharo petroglyphs on Pantiacolla range, 670 m, no verified masonry.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Late Bronze to Tibetan Buddhism · Andronovo, Turkic Kipchak, Oirat-Mongol Buddhist
South bend of Ili River 400 m south of main Tamgaly-Tas Buddha triad with vertical palimpsest.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Eneolithic to Early Bronze Age · Sredny Stog, Yamnaya, Catacomb
Southernmost sandstone outlier of Kamyana Mohyla island-hill, a low dome 200 m south of the main conglomerate mass exposing 12 shallow grottoes along Petryn Gully.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Rock art
Early Bronze to Early Islamic · Andronovo, Bactrian, Sogdian, Turkic, Samanid
Upper bench 80 m above gorge floor with caravan and Kufic mosque petroglyphs.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Basketmaker to Historic Ute (500 BCE – 1850 CE) · Basketmaker-Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo), Fremont, Navajo, Ute
Utah Wingate cliff 650 figures 500 BCE–19th c. palimpsest from Basketmaker to Ute.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Middle Bronze to Orkhon Turkic · Andronovo, Karasuk, Pazyryk, Turkic
Southwest lower gorge with Bronze sun-heads to Turkic tamgas gateway.
🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Outer Djenné-Jeno Village South — Djenné-Jeno (57-41) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Inner Djenné-Jeno Fortress A — Djenné-Jeno (57-49) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 800 CE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Rock art
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Southern Bayuda Terrace West — Bayuda (57-30) at Bayuda, Sudan is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Sacred Axum Mound North — Axum (57-45) at Axum, Ethiopia is a Bronze Age (regional) rock art of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for mound and associated settlement.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Late Bronze to Dzungar · Wusun, Turkic, Mongol-Oirat, Tibetan Buddhist
Upper limestone cliff 35 m above the Ili left bank at Tamgaly-Tas (Kapchagai), 800 m upstream from the famous 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist panels.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Rock art
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Bal Piedmont Petroglyph Field in Hadramawt, Yemen is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) rock art attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Natural Cretaceous (85 Ma); human modification medieval, hypothesized pre-Christian · Natural geology; medieval Christian hermitage; contested Germanic cult
Teutoburg Forest sandstone pillars with carved grottoes and medieval relief, debated as Germanic solar sanctuary.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Rock art
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Rock Art of Citadel Glen in Buriram Province, Thailand is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) rock art attributed to Andean Formative culture.
