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Paintings and engravings from the deepest human past.
🇨🇱 Chile · Rock art
Archaic to Late Intermediate 5000 BCE–1500 CE · Chango-Chinchorro maritime
Coastal Changos maritime promise rock art and 4 m shell mounds on Atacama sea cliff, 5000 BCE–1500 CE.
🇰🇿 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Early Holocene (~9500–7000 BCE) · Andean high-desert hunter-gatherer (Toquepala tradition)
Shallow Andean quebrada cave where Roger Ravines documented polychrome paintings of camelids, deer and corpulent hunters brandishing bows, one of the earliest figurative traditions on the Pacific…
🇮🇹 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.
🇮🇷 Iran · Rock art
Elamite to Parthian (c.1000 BCE–200 CE; peak Neo-Elamite 800–600 BCE) · Neo-Elamite → Parthian ( Elymais )
Kul-e Farah is a gorge with 6 Elamite rock reliefs (Kul-e Farah I–VI, c.800–600 BCE) — massive 5-m panels of king Hanni, processions (200+ figures), musicians a...
🇲🇽 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.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Rock art
Early Holocene to 1st millennium CE (10,000 BCE–500 CE) · Saharan hunter-pastoralist (Capsian, Pastoral Neolithic)
Tassili n'Ajjer Tin Merzouga – Saharan sandstone forest with 15,000+ paintings/engravings (10,000 BCE–500 CE) in the Tin Merzouga erg-edge sector: Round Head period giant pastoral figures (Jabbaren),…
Curaçao · Rock art
Hato Caves are show caves, publicly accessible since 1991 and a popular tourist attraction on the Caribbean island of Curaçao.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Killa Mach'ay (Quechua killa moon, mach'ay cave, "moon cave", also spelled Killa Machay, Killamachay, Quillamachay) is an archaeological site with rock paintings and petroglyphs in Peru.
🇬🇹 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.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Late Stone Age 10,000 BCE–19th c. CE · San (Khoisan)
Cederberg Stadsaal – Cape Fold Mountains sandstone domes and caves with Late Stone Age San rock art in Stadsaal Caves (Elephant Processional panel, 500–1600 CE), Sevilla Trail 130-site route.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Rock art
Neolithic to Iron Age (8000 BCE–500 CE) with rock art · Kavirondo
Gogo Falls — Kavirondo Rock Shelter and Iron Smelting in Migori County, Kenya is a Neolithic to Iron Age (8000 BCE–500 CE) with rock art rock_art attributed to Kavirondo.
🇹🇿 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.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Neolithic to Turkic to Historic (3000 BCE – 1900 CE) · Afanasievo to Karakol to Turkic to Russian surveyors
Confluence outcrops with elk and runic at sacred Two Rivers junction.
🇰🇿 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cave
Middle Palaeolithic to Creswellian (120k–10k BCE) · Neanderthal / Creswellian
Creswell Crags Gorge in Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire, Magnesian Limestone, United Kingdom is a Middle Palaeolithic to Creswellian (120k–10k BCE) cave attributed to Neanderthal / Creswellian culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Formative (1000–500 BCE) & Classic (500–700 CE) Xochipala · Olmec / Mezcala
Xochipala Region — Olmec Figurine Caves in Guerrero, Mexico is a Formative (1000–500 BCE) & Classic (500–700 CE) Xochipala rock_art attributed to Olmec / Mezcala.
