🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
La Pasiega Cave
Middle Paleolithic to Magdalenian ~64–11 ka BP · Neanderthal and later Solutrean/Magdalenian
Monte Castillo cave with 64 ka Neanderthal ladder motif and 700 parietal figures.
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🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Middle Paleolithic to Magdalenian ~64–11 ka BP · Neanderthal and later Solutrean/Magdalenian
Monte Castillo cave with 64 ka Neanderthal ladder motif and 700 parietal figures.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Late Pleistocene to Holocene (c.12,000–4000 BCE Gwion phase) · Aboriginal Australian (Kimberley)
Kimberley Gwion (Bradshaw) – elegant, tasselled dancing figures with elaborate headdresses and dillybag (c.12,000–4,000 BCE), 2,800+ sites on Kimberley Plateau.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Ksar Akil Rock Shelter Level XVII Epi-Palaeolithic in Mount Lebanon, Ksar Akil, Lebanon is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Tanum Vitlycke Rock Carving Panel Bride in Västra Götaland, Tanum, Sweden is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇪🇬 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.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Upper Paleolithic Aurignacian to Magdalenian (c.40,000–10,000 BCE) · Magdalenian and earlier Paleolithic
Lombrives – Europe's largest single cave by volume (39 km gallery, 2.5 km long chamber) in Ariège Pyrenees, extending Niaux system.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age (Kura-Araxes, Early Bronze–Lchashen) · Kura-Araxes to Trialeti pastoralists; later Garni-Shengavit
2850 m Aragats: 20 fish–bull dragon stones (vishaps) 5th–2nd mill BCE with libation holes at Aragats springs.
🇨🇳 China · 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.