🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Qohaito Market Street South
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Qohaito Market Street South in Tigray, Ethiopia is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Rock art
Mogador Island Fort
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Mogador Island Fort in Bayuda Desert, Sudan is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Wassu Quarry Outlier — Limpopo (Polokwane)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Wassu Quarry Outlier in Limpopo, South Africa is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Wari Pikillaqta Sector
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Wari Pikillaqta Sector in Amazonas, Brazil is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Watson Brake Mound — Veracruz — watson-brake
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Watson Brake Mound in Veracruz, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) rock art attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Gopuram Gateway East
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Gopuram Gateway East in Oaxaca, Mexico is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Medieval culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Karkur Murr Rock Art — Messak Plateau Libya-Annex
Pastoral (6500–1500 BCE Bubalus to Caballine) · Messak pastoralists (Garamantian antecedents)
Messak documented by Mori 1960s and di Lernia, Bubalus 6500 BCE huge fauna.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Rochester Creek Rock Art — Moorehead Panel
Fremont (900–1200 CE) · Fremont (San Rafael)
Emery Rochester recorded by Gunnerson 1960s, Fremont horned shaman and migration trail.
🇨🇱 Chile · Rock art
El Médano Petroglyphs — Atacama Fishing Cult
Archaic to Formative (4000 BCE – 500 CE) · Taltal-Chango maritime foragers (Caleta Huelén) of coastal Atacama
Chilean coastal boulders 2,500 balsa-whale fishing petroglyphs 4000 BCE–500 CE, earliest American mariners.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Panaramitee Rock Engravings
Mid Holocene to Contact (3000 BCE – 1850 CE) · Aboriginal Australian (Wilyakali, surrounding Western Desert groups)
South Australian type site of Panaramitee track-circle style 3000 BCE–contact.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly-Tas III Upper Terrace Ili Petroglyphs
Early Nomadic · Saka, Wusun, Kangju
Upper second terrace 500 m inland with Saka animal style settlement context.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Langshan (Qingtongxia) Rock Art
Neolithic to Medieval Chinese (Majiayao to Western Xia) · Northern Neolithic, Ordos Bronze, Xiongnu and Tangut
Ningxia southern Helan fringe cliffs with 1200 images Neolithic to Xixia, Ordos interface.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Paititi — Pantiacolla–Pusharo Plateau (Madre de Dios Antisuyu)
Hypothetical Late Horizon projection onto pre-Inca petroglyph horizon Pre-Columbian to Early Colonial hypothesis · Inca Vilcabamba hypothesis projected onto pre-Inca rock art (unvalidated) / Machiguenga
Most-photographed Paititi candidate — sandstone mesa terraces above Pusharo petroglyphs on Pantiacolla range, 670 m, no verified masonry.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly-Tas II South Bend Ili Petroglyphs
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.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Kamennyye Mogily South Ridge — Petryn Gully
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
Sarmishsay Upper Terrace Petroglyphs
Early Bronze to Early Islamic · Andronovo, Bactrian, Sogdian, Turkic, Samanid
Upper bench 80 m above gorge floor with caravan and Kufic mosque petroglyphs.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs
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.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Tsagaan Salaa Southwest Baga Oigor
Middle Bronze to Orkhon Turkic · Andronovo, Karasuk, Pazyryk, Turkic
Southwest lower gorge with Bronze sun-heads to Turkic tamgas gateway.
🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art
Outer Djenné-Jeno Village South — Djenné-Jeno (57-41)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Outer Djenné-Jeno Village South — Djenné-Jeno (57-41) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art
Inner Djenné-Jeno Fortress A — Djenné-Jeno (57-49)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Inner Djenné-Jeno Fortress A — Djenné-Jeno (57-49) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 800 CE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Rock art
Southern Bayuda Terrace West — Bayuda (57-30)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Southern Bayuda Terrace West — Bayuda (57-30) at Bayuda, Sudan is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Sacred Axum Mound North — Axum (57-45)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Sacred Axum Mound North — Axum (57-45) at Axum, Ethiopia is a Bronze Age (regional) rock art of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for mound and associated settlement.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly-Tas II Upper Cliff Petroglyphs
Late Bronze to Dzungar · Wusun, Turkic, Mongol-Oirat, Tibetan Buddhist
Upper limestone cliff 35 m above the Ili left bank at Tamgaly-Tas (Kapchagai), 800 m upstream from the famous 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist panels.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Rock art
Bal Piedmont Petroglyph Field
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Bal Piedmont Petroglyph Field in Hadramawt, Yemen is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) rock art attributed to Byzantine culture.