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Paintings and engravings from the deepest human past.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Rock art
paleolithic archaeological site in Portugal
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Rock art
The Cochno Stone is a large cup and ring marked rock at Auchnacraig, Faifley, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, next to the Cochno farm. It is also known variously as "Whitehill 1" and "the Druid Stone".
🇲🇳 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.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Later Stone Age (Upper Palaeolithic 27 ka) to Historical (27 ka–1400 CE) · San ancestors (Early LSA humans; Howieson's Poort industry)
Cave yielding 27,500 BCE portable painted plaquettes – among world's oldest art, named for 1969 moon landing excavation.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Rock art
El Abra is the name given to an extensive archeological site, located in the valley of the same name.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Early to Late Bronze via Early Iron · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti, Lchashen-Metsamor, Urartian fringe
Lower southeast lava field 1.1 km from crater lake with 380 boulders and vishap cart motifs.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Rock art
Neolithic 6000–1000 BCE → Bronze Age overlay · Korean Neolithic maritime hunters (Ulsan Daegok)
Bangudae — Korean Neolithic whaling petroglyph rock art (c.6000–1000 BCE) 20 km west Ulsan, Ulju County, Daegok-cheon vertical cliff 4×5 m, discovered 1971 Mun Myeong-dae.
🇬🇳 Guinea · Archaeological wonder
Late Iron to Protohistoric (600–1500 CE) · Proto-Kissi / Sapi
Soapstone 10–40 cm janiform ancestral figures 600–1500 CE in forest-zone rice shrines (200+ recorded).
🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Outer Djenné-Jeno Mound East — Djenné-Jeno (57-33) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for mound and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Inkapintay (Quechua Inka Inca, pintay to paint / painting (a borrowing from Spanish pintar to paint), "Inka painting") or Inkapintayuq (-yuq a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with an Inka…
🇰🇷 South Korea · Rock art
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Park Glen Butte Petroglyph Field in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) rock art attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇫🇮 Finland · Rock art
Neolithic–Bronze Age (4000–1000 BCE) · Comb Ceramic / Pit-Comb Ware hunter-gatherers
Finland's largest and best-known rock painting site on a sheer granite cliff above Lake Yövesi, part of Lake Saimaa.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Intipanawin or Intipa Ñawin (Quechua inti sun, ñawi eye, -pa, -n suffixes, "eye of the sun", also spelled Intipanawin) is an archaeological site and the name of a mountain with rock paintings in Peru.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Rock art
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Red Town Petroglyph Field in County Kerry, Ireland is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) rock art attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Rock art
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Wadi Khirbet Rock Shelter in Oruro, Bolivia is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) rock art attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Rock art
Himmelstalund is a large park/open space in Norrköping, Sweden. The park is known for having one of Sweden's densest collection of petroglyphs, with more than 1,600 rock carvings across 60 panels.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Fortress
Medieval Akan (Bono) (11th–18th c. CE) · Akan (Bono–Adansi)
Granite dome fortress refuge of Bono state with white dot art shelters.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Rock art
The Cojines del Zaque (English: "Cushions of the Zaque") is an archeological site of the Muisca located in the city of Tunja, Boyacá, which in the time of the Muisca Confederation was called Hunza.
🇹🇩 Chad · Rock art
Holocene 6000 BCE–500 CE · Saharan pastoral (Ennedi tradition)
Ennedi Massif – Chad's sandstone guelta maze (UNESCO 2016 natural/cultural) with 115 painted and engraved sites (6000 BCE–500 CE): Manda Guili camel caravan, Tarso rolling-hills cattle pastoral,…
🇳🇪 Niger · Rock art
Neolithic to Medieval (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Saharan pastoralists / Libyco-Berber / Kanem
Djado Plateau is an isolated sandstone cuesta 1,000 m² in Ténéré with rock art 6000 BCE–1000 CE, engraved cattle, giraffe and Libyco-Berber inscriptions in shelters, plus ruined ksar Djado fortress…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
The Petroglyphs of Eshkiolmes (Kazakh: Ешкіөлмес петроглифтері, romanized: Eşkiölmes petroglïfteri) are located throughout the Eshkiolmes mountain range in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan.
