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Paintings and engravings from the deepest human past.
🇲🇼 Malawi · Rock art
Late Stone Age to Recent (1000 BCE – 1800 CE) · BaTwa hunter-gatherers, Chewa (Maravi) Bantu farmers
Malawi granite forest 127 shelters Twa white and Chewa red Chinamwali initiation art, UNESCO 476.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Rock art
Neolithic to Iron Age (5000–1200 BCE) · Late Neolithic Karanovo, Eneolithic Gumelnița-Krivodol, Bronze Age Verbicioara
Bulgarian 2.5-km cave 700 guano paintings Neolithic to Iron Age with 366-day calendar.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Modern (Karasuk to Manchu period) · Karasuk, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic and Mongol Buddhist
Sacred mountain ridge northeast of Ulaanbaatar with 600 panels Bronze Age to Buddhist.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Rock art
Late Pleistocene (43.9 ka) · Early modern humans of Wallacea (pre-Austronesian)
Sulawesi 43.9 ka therianthrope pig hunt — oldest figurative art globally.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Late Bronze to Tibetan Buddhism · Andronovo, Turkic Kipchak, Oirat-Mongol Buddhist
South bend of Ili River 400 m south of main Tamgaly-Tas Buddha triad with vertical palimpsest.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I · Late Chalcolithic Syunik-Areni, Kura-Araxes early
Upper chamber 12 m above Areni-1 winery cave with Chalcolithic lattice petroglyphs.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Eneolithic to Early Bronze Age · Sredny Stog, Yamnaya, Catacomb
Southernmost sandstone outlier of Kamyana Mohyla island-hill, a low dome 200 m south of the main conglomerate mass exposing 12 shallow grottoes along Petryn Gully.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Rock art
Early Bronze to Early Islamic · Andronovo, Bactrian, Sogdian, Turkic, Samanid
Upper bench 80 m above gorge floor with caravan and Kufic mosque petroglyphs.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient village
Middle Paleolithic to Epipalaeolithic (85,000–8,000 BP; cemetery 13,000 BCE) · Aterian / Iberomaurusian
Iberomaurusian cemetery cave Taforalt with oldest African funerary bundle and Natufian-linked DNA.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Turkic · Afanasievo, Andronovo, Pazyryk, Ancient Turk
Promontory at sacred Chuya-Katun confluence with ford-inscription and sun-wheel.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Late Formative to Early Intermediate (Salinar–Recuay) · Salinar / Recuay (Pashash)
40+ Salinar–Recuay cleared-pavement geoglyphs (500 BCE–400 CE) on Santa Valley quebrada fans.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Early Bronze to Western Xia (Tangut) · Zhukaigou, Ordos, Han, Western Xia (Tangut)
Zhongwei Huaishan central terrace with naturalistic ibex and Western Xia inscriptions.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Basketmaker to Historic Ute (500 BCE – 1850 CE) · Basketmaker-Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo), Fremont, Navajo, Ute
Utah Wingate cliff 650 figures 500 BCE–19th c. palimpsest from Basketmaker to Ute.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Itacoatiara tradition disputed 2000 BCE – 200 CE (no direct date, varve patina) · Indigenous Brazilian Itacoatiara / Agreste rock-art tradition
24 m gneiss wall with 400 spirals claimed Orion map and Phoenician writing — rock art with fringe lost-tech overlay.
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) · Yuman (Mojave/Quechan)
9-m Fisherman intaglio (900–1200 CE) on Plomosa piedmont — spearman with fish and sun.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Cave
Early Holocene (c.12000–8000 BCE) Lagoa Santa Paleoindian · Lagoa Santa Paleoindian (Luzia horizon)
Lapa do Santo is a Lower Karst limestone rockshelter at Mocambeiro, northern Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, at 730 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Pleistocene? contested 20,000 BP + secure Early Holocene 9,000 BCE – Formative 1800 BCE · Pacaicasa – Ayacucho Preceramic → Wari?
Deep limestone cave 30 m entrance, 13 m depth in Ayacucho basin: stratified sequence spanning Pleistocene to Formative with contested earliest layers (Pikimachay phase 20,000–12,000 BP lithic…
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Mesolithic to Early Historic (5000 BCE – 500 CE) · Mesolithic Himalayan foragers, Early Historic Katyuri related
Almora Himalayan ceiling 25-m with linked dance figures Mesolithic-Historic.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Middle Bronze to Orkhon Turkic · Andronovo, Karasuk, Pazyryk, Turkic
Southwest lower gorge with Bronze sun-heads to Turkic tamgas gateway.
🇰🇷 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.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic (Middle to Late) · Upper Palaeolithic Altai-Sayan hunter-gatherers (Mal'ta-Afontova tradition)
Mongolia's Palaeolithic blue cave with ostrich-mammoth paintings 38–20 ka.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Nomadic · Andronovo-Fedorovo, Saka, Turkic
South terrace 600 m south of Tamgaly UNESCO core with Late Bronze chariot stratigraphy.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Lower Paleolithic 800 ka → Hoabinhian late Pleistocene · Vietnamese Paleolithic — Ba River Acheulean-like (An Khe facies) predating Hoabinhian
An Khe Paleolithic Site — Lower Paleolithic chopper–chopping tool site (c.800 ka Acheulean-like bifaces) on Ba River terrace at An Khe 50 km E Pleiku, Gia Lai highland pass, discovered 2014…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Early Holocene to Late Antiquity · Saharan Epipalaeolithic, Old Kingdom expeditions, Ptolemaic and Coptic oasis settlers
Kharga Oasis scarp petroglyphs from Holocene wet-phase savanna to Coptic, on caravan route.
