🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Monte Alegre)
Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene (11–10 ka BCE) · Paleoindian (preceramic Amazonian foragers)
Amazon cuesta cave earliest Amazonian art 11 ka BCE with Amazon pollen and fishtail points.
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🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene (11–10 ka BCE) · Paleoindian (preceramic Amazonian foragers)
Amazon cuesta cave earliest Amazonian art 11 ka BCE with Amazon pollen and fishtail points.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Iron Age (Luoyue) · Luoyue (proto-Zhuang) Dian-related
Fusui east cliff of UNESCO Huashan 170-m hematite painting with 1100 frog-shamans and bronze drums, 500 BCE–200 CE.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Epipalaeolithic to Iberian (8000 BCE – 500 CE) · Epipalaeolithic hunters, Neolithic, Chalcolithic Schematic, Iberian
Aragon pine forest 22 shelters Levantine white archers and schematic bull 6 ka BCE–Iberian, UNESCO 874.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Eastern Han (Warring States 400 BCE – Han) · Luoyue (proto-Zhuang Baiyue)
Guangxi karst cliffs 38 panels 1900 frog-shaman figures 5th c. BCE–2nd c. CE, UNESCO 1508.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Rock art
Early to Mid Holocene (7000–3000 BCE) · Early Pastoral Neolithic of the Horn (pre-Cushitic pastoralists)
Somaliland granite shelters 20 panels polychrome longhorn cattle 7000–3000 BCE.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene (12 ka BCE – 7 ka BCE) · Pleistocene Kimberley Aboriginal groups (Wunambal, Balanggarra ancestors)
Kimberley 100,000 shelters tasselled Gwion warriors 12 ka–7 ka oldest Australian figures.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age (2000–500 BCE) · Andronovo-related Chemurchek, early nomadic Saka/Xiongnu
Northern Tianshan schist cliff 120-m with masked shaman fertility dance 1000 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic to Historic (4000 BCE – 19th c.) · Archaic Desert (BCS), Fremont, Numic Ute
Book Cliffs triple-gallery BCS ghosts, Fremont and Ute horses in one wash.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Mesolithic to Chalcolithic (7000–2000 BCE) · Mesolithic Levantine hunters then Neolithic Schematic farmers
Levantine type site Cova dels Cavalls 57 deer-archer frieze 7000–3500 BCE, UNESCO 874 origin.
🇮🇩 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic Hueco (6000 BCE) → Jornada Mogollon (1200 CE) → Tigua/Mescalero pictographs · Jornada Mogollon / Apache Comanche
El Paso huecos excavated by Jackson 1920s, 3000 pictographs, Comanche Cave masks 1000 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Barrier Canyon Style (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Barrier Canyon archaic (pre-Fremont)
Horseshoe Great Gallery recorded by Schaafsma 1970s, Archaic Barrier Style before Anasazi.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Mesolithic to Early Historic (8000 BCE – 1000 CE) · Mesolithic Narmada Hunter-Gatherers, Chalcolithic Malwa, Historic tribal (Gond)
Narmada quartzite 30 shelters with buffalo-hunt microlith art 8 ka–historic.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Middle to Late Archaic (3000–2000 BCE) · Lower Pecos hunter-foragers (related to Coahuiltecan)
Texas Lower Pecos 7.6-m shaman-antlered polychrome 3000–2000 BCE, Pecos style type.
🇲🇼 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.
🇲🇳 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.