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Paintings and engravings from the deepest human past.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Middle Stone Age to Iron Age (92,000 BP–500 CE) · MSA/LSA forest foragers
Iwo Eleru Rock Shelter in southwest Nigeria forest is Later Stone Age to Iron Age shelter 92,000–3,000 BP with 13ka calvaria of early modern human with archaic features (Iwo Eleru skull) sparking…
🇮🇱 Israel · Hydraulic works
Chalcolithic to Iron Age (4500 BCE–1000 BCE) · Timna / Egyptian New Kingdom
Timna Valley — Copper Mines & Temple in Southern Negev, Arabah, Israel is a Chalcolithic to Iron Age (4500 BCE–1000 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Timna / Egyptian New Kingdom culture.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Mesolithic to Historic (8000 BCE–1500 CE) · Central Indian rock art tradition (Raigarh)
Bhima Bharos / Raigarh-Onakona – Chhattisgarh rock art province (Singhanpur, Kabra Pahad, Chitwa Dongri) with cupules, giant footprint petroglyphs ('Bhima footprints'), hunting scenes, geometric…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Mesolithic to Medieval (9000 BCE – 1200 CE) · Azov steppe pastoral to Nogai Turkic
North end shelters with cart/chariot and Turkic tamga palimpsest.
🇵🇪 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.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Mesolithic to Chalcolithic (9000–2000 BCE paintings) · Central Indian Mesolithic hunter-gatherer
Adamgarh Hill North – Narmada valley quartzite ridge south of Hoshangabad with 11+ Mesolithic rock shelters paintings (9000–3000 BCE) paralleling Bhimbetka 40km west.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Rock art
Mauryan (260 BCE) · Mauryan Greek–Aramaic
Kandahar — Ashokan Greek-Aramaic Bilingual Inscription Extension in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan is a Mauryan (260 BCE) rock_art attributed to Mauryan Greek–Aramaic.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Late Pleistocene to Holocene (c.35000–10000 BP Hoabinhian) · Hoabinhian hunter-gatherers
Hoabinhian karst rockshelter (35,000–10,000 BP) — continuous pebble-tool sequence before Neolithic.
🇷🇺 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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Predynastic to New Kingdom (3500–1086 BCE) · Predynastic / Egyptian (New Kingdom)
Governor tombs north of El Kab with predynastic rock-art bank.
🇺🇸 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.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200 BCE) · Boyne art tradition
Knowth satellite mound N, decorated K13 excavated by Eogan, with classic Boyne passage-art facing Newgrange at winter solstice.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Rock art
Mauryan (260 BCE) · Mauryan (Ashoka)
Mansehra — Ashokan Rock Edict South Inscription in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Mauryan (260 BCE) rock_art attributed to Mauryan (Ashoka).
🇰🇷 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.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age rock-art at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇲🇳 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.
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Upper Palaeolithic (Magdalenian) · Magdalenian
Major Magdalenian cave on the Sella River with 12 galleries of polychrome paintings (c. 22,000–10,000 BP), including horses, reindeer and famous anthropomorph, plus habitation deposits.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Late Stone Age to Iron Age (4000 BCE–1500 CE) · Nok-related / Hausa
National park shelters with 12 iron furnaces and Shira rock paintings.
🇷🇺 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.
Nicaragua · Rock art
UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on a volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua (Cocibolca), formed by the Concepción and Maderas volcanoes, with rainforests and growing ecotourism
