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CategoriesPetroglyphs
Images pecked, incised or ground into rock rather than painted onto it.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Rock Art of Cross-Cliff in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) rock art attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Neolithic Pastoral ~8000–2000 BP · Pastoral Neolithic Saharan
Fezzan escarpment's elephant and giraffe engravings marking Holocene Sahara greening.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Gravettian ~28–25 ka BP · Gravettian
Sealed 1.6 km Gravettian engraved gallery with 4 m bison and bear nests intact since 25 ka.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Oirat · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun, Oirat
North river-bend schist slabs at the Kurta confluence on the Ili, 1.2 km north of the main Tamgaly-Tas Buddha, comprising 90 panels on flood-scoured boulders and low cliff.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Rock Art of Stone Norton in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) rock art attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Rock Art of Wall Nagar in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Port Bank Petroglyph Field in Sicily, Italy is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) rock art attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to early nomadic (~2000 BCE – 1000 CE) · Andronovo, Karasuk, Saka and Turkic nomadic
Arid gorge in the Chu-Ili massif preserving five major groups with over 5,000 petroglyphs, famed for anthropomorphic sun-headed figures up to 80 cm tall with rayed haloes.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Eastfield Sanctuary Rock Shelter in Chiapas, Mexico is a Moche (100–800 CE) rock art attributed to Moche culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Rock art
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Narrow Midfield Rock Shelter in Petén, Guatemala is a Moche (100–800 CE) rock art attributed to Moche culture.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Rock art
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Brown Petroglyph Field in Balochistan, Pakistan is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) rock art attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Rock art
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Dun Petroglyph Field in County Kerry, Ireland is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) rock art attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Medieval (3000 BCE–1500 CE) · Central Asian petroglyph tradition (Boysun UNESCO)
Tashkirmansay is 50-m-long gorge wall with 1000+ petroglyphs — Bronze Age ibex/chariots, Iron Age archers, Turkic tamgas at 1100 m Boysun UNESCO Landscape.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Harlaa Urban Mound East in Serengeti, Tanzania is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Late Bronze to Saka-Wusun · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun
Isolated granite outcrop 600 m north of Tamgaly Main Gorge, a whale-backed ridge exposing 22 vertical panels with 180+ peckings contrasting valley-floor schist.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Rock art
Neolithic to Joseon (3000 BCE–1800 CE palimpsest) · Neolithic–Bronze–Iron–Silla–Joseon layers
Ulsan Daegokcheon excavated by Moon Myung-Dae 1970, UNESCO tentative, 200 petroglyphs prehistoric to Joseon traders.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Shikhara Spire South in Cusco, Peru is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) rock art attributed to Medieval culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic
Central Yaloman terrace 200 m above Chuya at 723 km tract, a 40-m-wide sandstone cliff with 180 peckings of Kalgutinsky elk, Saka deer-masks and Turkic horsemen.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Dinwoody (8000 BCE–1000 CE) to En-Toto Pecked to historic · Plains Archaic Dinwoody / Shoshone
Thermopolis Legend Rock state park, Dinwoody style intermontane archaic unique to Wyoming.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Rock art
Neolithic (7000–1000 BCE) · Korean Neolithic whalers
Korea's NE whaling cliff discovered 1971, UNESCO tentative 2002, world's densest whale hunt rock art.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic
North ridge of Tsagaan Salaa valley exposing 200+ Bronze Age horse-herd processions and Early Kalgutinsky ibex, part of 20 km Tsagaan Salaa–Baga Oigor complex dated Late Pleistocene–Turkic.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic
South-facing Yaloman cliff 5 km west of Kalbak-Tash main, with Andronovo two-spoked chariots and 12 Turkic tamga slabs overlaying earlier elk.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Neolithic to Mongol Empire (6000 BCE – 1300 CE) · Neolithic Altai, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Karasuk, Pazyryk, Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol
Mongolian Altai UNESCO high valley 10,000 images 6 ka BCE–Mongol at 2850 m.
