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Paintings and engravings from the deepest human past.
🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Old Djenné-Jeno Reservoir Outer — Djenné-Jeno (57-21) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Chalcolithic (regional) rock art of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 CE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Chauvet–Pont d'Arc — Detached Panel Bear Gallery in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Ardèche, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE…
🇨🇦 Canada · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Writing-on-Stone — Ancillary Panel North (Áísínai'pi, Alberta) in Alberta, Writing-on-Stone, Canada is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) …
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Boyne / Loughcrew passage tradition
35 m Loughcrew chief tomb with cruciform chamber whose art is illuminated by equinox sunrise.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Boyne / Loughcrew tradition (western outlier)
Hilltop 15 m passage tomb with three decorated stones (spirals/lozenges) — westernmost Boyne-style tomb in Ulster.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Western Axum Ridge South — Axum (57-06) at Axum, Ethiopia is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Bhimbetka — Auditorium Cave Ancillary Panel in Madhya Pradesh, Raisen, Bhimbetka, India is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art att…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Tassili n'Ajjer — Tin Merine North Gallery in Illizi, Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed t…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative (500 BCE–600 CE) · Alto Ramírez / Cabuza
Terraced alluvial cone at Quebrada Lima mouth into Lluta at km 68 (1,050 m), 5° north-facing slope with 12 figures: 25-m lizards, 18-m camelid files and 40-m graded avenues with lateral berms (40 cm).
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Huaracana — Rock Painting Ancillary Shelter North (Ayacucho, Peru) in Ayacucho, Huaracana, Peru is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Middle Stone Age (100–70 ka ochre horizon, Still Bay 75 ka) · Homo sapiens Middle Stone Age (Still Bay/Howiesons Poort)
Blombos Cave is the 34 m-apse calcarenite sea-cliff shelter 300 km E of Cape Town where Christopher Henshilwood found 100,000–70,000 BP ochre workshop and earliest abstract engravings.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Rock art
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Southern Bayuda Terrace II — Bayuda (57-02) at Bayuda, Sudan is a Iron Age (regional) rock art of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Foppe di Nadro — Sector H Rock Panel in Lombardy, Brescia, Ceto, Italy is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Palaeo…
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Northern Axum Hilltop I — Axum (57-26) at Axum, Ethiopia is a Iron Age (regional) rock art of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Pallava–Pandya Early Medieval · Digambara Jain
Pallava–Pandya Jain cave complex (7th–9th c. CE) on Sittanavasal hillock, famed for Arivar Koil — earliest Tamil rock-cut Jain shrine with natural-cavern-pillared mandapa and Brahmi-Tamil inscription.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Neolithic to Early Historic (1000 BCE–200 CE) · Southern Neolithic / Maurya
Brahmagiri — Chitradurga in Karnataka, Chitradurga, India is a Neolithic to Early Historic (1000 BCE–200 CE) megalithic attributed to Southern Neolithic / Maurya culture.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Mesolithic to Bronze Age (8000 BCE – 1500 BCE) · Pontic Steppe hunter-gatherer to Yamna/Catacomb
West gully offshoots of Azov Stone Graves with bull and horse pecked panels.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Neolithic Longshan to Zhou (3000 BCE – 770 BCE) · Yangshao–Longshan farmer to Zhou frontier pastoral
Qinling foothill gorge with 30+ ibex and rayed humans of Longshan era.
🇸🇾 Syria · Rock art
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Hunstanton-Force Rock Shelter in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) rock art attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic to Protohistoric (7000 BP–1700 CE) · Paleoindian through Dakota
Midwest's largest petroglyph site: 4000 carvings 7000 BP–1700 CE on quartzite outcrop tracing 7000 years.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Mesolithic (8000 BCE) · Vindhya Mesolithic
Kunjhun Rock Art — Vindhya in Uttar Pradesh, Vindhya range, India is a Mesolithic (8000 BCE) rock art attributed to Vindhya Mesolithic culture.
🇮🇳 India · Cave
Mesolithic (10000–6000 BCE) · Mesolithic
Arhar — Son Valley Microlithic in Madhya Pradesh, Son valley, India is a Mesolithic (10000–6000 BCE) cave attributed to Mesolithic culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Formative–Early Classic 600 BCE–200 CE · Zapotec (Dainzú phase)
Zapotec ballplayer gallery: 47 helmed player reliefs with trophy heads and jaguar deities on Building A.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Pleistocene to Holocene (c.45,000 BCE–present; classic Panaramitee tradition) · Aboriginal Australian (Adnyamathanha, etc)
Panaramitee – pan-continental pecking tradition (Panaramitee style) of classic circle, dot, crescent, track and line motifs on desert varnished rocks; type site Panaramitee Station South Australia.
