🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Chuya Steppe — Kosh-Agach Geoglyph Petroglyphs
Iron Age to Medieval · Pazyryk-Scythian, Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol
Kosh-Agach Chuya steppe 1750 m with 800 petroglyphs, Pazyryk deer-stone stag and 80-ibex super-panel.
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🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Iron Age to Medieval · Pazyryk-Scythian, Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol
Kosh-Agach Chuya steppe 1750 m with 800 petroglyphs, Pazyryk deer-stone stag and 80-ibex super-panel.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun, Turkic
West cirque of Saimaluu-Tash at 3120 m with 1072 boulders, Andronovo ploughing and shaman processions.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval (Mongolian Bronze to Göktürk) · Karasuk, Deer Stone-Khirigsuur and Turkic pastoralists
Arkhangai basalt gorge with 800 deer-style and Turkic petroglyphs along volcanic river.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Rock art
Eneolithic to Early Iron Age (Kura-Araxes to Urartian hinterland) · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti and Urartian-period highland pastoralists
Zangezur alpine boulder field at 3500 m with 1500 petroglyphs, highest Eurasian rock art.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Late Palaeolithic to Medieval (20 ka BCE – 12th c. CE) · Epipalaeolithic, Sredny Stog, Yamna, Catacomb, Scythian, Sarmatian, Turkic steppe cultures
Azov steppe sandstone hill with 87 grottoes and 3,000 petroglyphs from Palaeolithic to Turkic.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age (5000–1000 BCE) · Neolithic Syunik pastoralists, Kura-Araxes, Trialeti, Lchashen-Metsamor
Armenian volcanic lake at 3300 m with 10,000 basalt ibex-chariot petroglyphs.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Palaeolithic to Early Bronze · Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Okunev
South overhang 180 m south of cave with Afanasievo exterior petroglyphs on talus.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Bronze-Iron Age (2000-500 BCE) · Camunian
Val Camonica Rock Art Dos Sotto Panel 44 — Eastern Outlier in Lombardy, Brescia, Italy is a Bronze-Iron Age (2000-500 BCE) rock art attributed to Camunian.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Early Bronze Age · Catacomb (Katakombnaya)
North gully 350 m north of Kamyana Mohyla with Catacomb geometric masks and wagon panels.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Bronze-Iron Age (2000-500 BCE) · Camunian
Val Camonica Rock Art Dos Sotto Panel 44 — Northern Annex in Lombardy, Brescia, Italy is a Bronze-Iron Age (2000-500 BCE) rock art attributed to Camunian.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Bronze-Iron Age (2000-500 BCE) · Camunian
Val Camonica Rock Art Dos Sotto Panel 44 in Lombardy, Brescia, Italy is a Bronze-Iron Age (2000-500 BCE) rock art attributed to Camunian.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Turkic · Afanasievo, Andronovo, Pazyryk, Ancient Turk
Promontory at sacred Chuya-Katun confluence with ford-inscription and sun-wheel.
🇨🇳 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.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Iron Age to Early Modern (1000 BCE – 18th c. CE) · Saka (Scythian), Wusun, Turkic, Oirat-Dzungar Tibetan Buddhist
Ili granite cliff with 1677 Tibetan Bodhisattvas and Saka-Turkic palimpsest.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Rock art
Classical (regional) · Classical
Northern Great Zimbabwe Settlement Inner — Great Zimbabwe (57-27) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Classical (regional) rock art of the Classical tradition, built c.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Rock art
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Great Great Zimbabwe Village South — Great Zimbabwe (57-28) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Iron Age (regional) rock art of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Late Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun, Turkic
Central tributary gorge of the Tamgaly (Tanbaly) UNESCO landscape 170 km NW Almaty, comprising 4.5 km of northwest-facing Chu-Ili schist panels with ~800 engravings.
🇪🇹 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.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Rock art
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Southern Bayuda Sanctuary East — Bayuda (57-38) at Bayuda, Sudan is a Iron Age (regional) rock art of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 200 CE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Royal Axum Citadel Inner — Axum (57-48) at Axum, Ethiopia is a Iron Age (regional) rock art of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Later Stone Age to Colonial ~8000 BP–19th c. · San ( ancestral Bushman) and Khoe
Kimberley andesite engravings with 1,500 eland-rhino figures and living San custodianship.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Late Stone Age to recent (~3000 BCE – 19th century CE; most 1500 BCE onward) · Sandawe hunter-gatherer to Bantu pastoralist, later Warangi
Over 150 shelters scattered across the Kondoa escarpment display stratified painting traditions: early naturalistic eland and human figures with elongated heads (hunter-gatherer), later white…
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Pleistocene to Historic ~50 ka–present · Australian Aboriginal (Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi, Yaburara)
Million-engraving petroglyph province on Pilbara gabbro archipelago, 50 kyr continuous record.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Neolithic to Iron Age (~6000 BCE – 1000 BCE; inscriptions to 1st century CE) · South Indian Neolithic to Iron Age; Sangam to Tamil-Brahmi
Natural cleft formed by a 4-m boulder bridging a rift in Ambukuthimala hill reveals Old Kannada petroglyphs: over 400 engravings of ibex-like 'Indus-style' jar, stickmen, Sun Plan wheels and a…