🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Saimaluu-Tash East Ridge Cirque
Bronze Age to Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic, Karakhanid
East ridge cirque 900 m east of main lake with Turkic falconry medieval phase.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Khoit Tsenkher Central Gallery
Upper Palaeolithic · Altai Palaeolithic (Mal'ta–Afontova horizon)
Central painted gallery 40 m inside Khoit Tsenkher cave with Palaeolithic polychrome bison.
🇵🇪 Peru · Cave
Guitarrero Cave
Lithic – Preceramic (c.12000–8000 BCE earliest; 8600 BCE cultigens) · Andean Lithic / Guitarrero tradition
Guitarrero Cave is a shallow limestone rockshelter on the west flank of the Cordillera Blanca above the Santa River at 2,580 m near Yungay, Ancash.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Ughtasar North Plateau Caravanserai
Late Bronze to Medieval Silk Road · Urartian, Medieval Armenian (Zakarid), Seljuk
North plateau caravanserai rock-shelter with medieval caravan petroglyphs at 2820 m.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Cueva del Romeral Rock Art Shelter West — Northern Annex
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (3000-1500 BCE) · Iberian Schematic
Cueva del Romeral Rock Art Shelter West — Northern Annex in Andalusia, Jaen, Spain is a Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (3000-1500 BCE) rock art attributed to Iberian Schematic.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Archaeological wonder
Uushgii Ovoor (Uushigiin Övör) Deer Stone Complex
Bronze Age Khereksur/Deer Stone–Khirigsuur Complex · Mongolian Late Bronze Age pastoralists (pre-Xiongnu)
30 Bronze Age deer stones (1400–700 BCE)—densest flying-deer stelae gallery at Mörön.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Curbans Serpentine Rock Engravings
Chalcolithic to Bronze Age (Remedello to Polada) · Southern Alpine Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age pastoralists (Proto-Bego culture)
Durance serpentinite slabs with 400 serpent and dagger engravings 3000–1800 BCE, Monte Bego piedmont.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Archaeological wonder
Truong Son
Hoabinhian 10,000–8000 BCE → Son Vi → Sa Huynh 1000 BCE–200 CE → War layer 1965–75 · Hoabinhian → Sa Huynh
Truong Son = Annamite highland caves (Hoabinhian→Sa Huynh, 10 ka–500 CE) on Hai Van crest (task-highlight).
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Rock art
Zaraut-Say Rock Paintings
Mesolithic (Early Holocene) · Zaraut Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (Kuhitang cultural complex)
Kuhitang shelter with Mesolithic ochre hunt scenes 8000–5000 BCE, narrative archers and bulls.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Kalbak-Tash II Yaloman North Terrace
Neolithic to Turkic Khaganate · Afanasievo, Okunev, Andronovo, Saka-Pazyryk, Turkic
North bank Yaloman terrace 1.8 km upstream of main Kalbak-Tash with elk-boat panels.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Pedra do Ingá – Ingá Stone Enigma
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
Bouse Fisherman Intaglio (Fisherman Geoglyph)
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) · Yuman (Mojave/Quechan)
9-m Fisherman intaglio (900–1200 CE) on Plomosa piedmont — spearman with fish and sun.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Lakhudiyar Rock Shelters (Barechhina)
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.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Samun Dukiya (Nok satellite)
Nigerian Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · Nok
Waterlogged pit yielding 25 in-situ Nok heads 900 BCE–500 CE and early 550 BCE iron knives.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Archaeological wonder
Spirit Cave (Tham Lod Rockshelter)
Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Hoabinhian 12000–7500 BCE · Hoabinhian (northwest Thailand hunter-gatherer, proto-Austroasiatic?)
Hoabinhian hunter-gatherer cave (c.12000–7500 BCE) in the Shan Hills karst near Pang Mapha, Mae Hong Son — type-site where Chester Gorman (1966) defined Hoabinhian.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Rock art
Adrar Bous (Adrar Bou Achchouch?? corrected: Adrar des Ifoghas sector)
Neolithic to Pastoral (6000–1000 BCE) · Neolithic pastoralists / Libyco-Berber
Adrar plateau quartzite guelb rock engravings west of Atar with Neolithic interdune settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Meir (Mir)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1750 BCE peak Twelfth Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
14th nome ridge tombs with Senbi-Ukh-hotep 1970 BCE earliest daily-life genre scenes and pilgrimage frieze.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Saimaluu-Tash West Ashu Pass Petroglyphs
Saka to Turkic Medieval · Saka, Wusun, Turkic
Western cirque shelf of Saimaluu-Tash at Ashu Pass, a glacial hanging valley 2 km west of Saimaluu-Tash I main valley floor at 3420 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Checta Petroglyphs
Initial Period to Late Horizon ~1500 BCE–1532 CE · Andean (Chavín-influenced to Inca)
450 boulder petroglyph field above Chillón River with 3,500-year rayed-head tradition.
🇮🇳 India · Rock shelter
Bhimbetka Satellite Shelter — IIB-33
Mesolithic (7000 BCE) · Mesolithic
Bhimbetka Satellite Shelter — IIB-33 in Madhya Pradesh, Bhimbetka outlier, India is a Mesolithic (7000 BCE) rock shelter attributed to Mesolithic culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Saywite Monolith
Inca Late Horizon ca.1470 CE · Inca
2.28-m granite boulder with 203 miniature carvings, ca.1470 Inca hydraulic model.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Dutsen Kongba (Jos Plateau)
Nok to Berom (1500 BCE–present) · Nok / Proto-Berom
Jos Plateau rock-gong complex with 8 granite gongs and Nok scatter.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Kainji Rock Art and Mounds
MSA to Iron Age (50,000 BCE–1800 CE; rock art 2000 BCE–500 CE) · MSA / Kintampo-related / Iron Age (Borgawa)
Kainji shoreline and islands host Middle Stone Age to Iron Age rock shelters with geometric rock art and 2,000-year mound settlements along Niger River, inundated partially 1968 by Kainji Dam.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Toro Muerto Petroglyphs
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate ~900–1450 CE · Wari to Collagua / Inca fringe
5,000-boulder petroglyph desert - world's densest - Wari-Collagua dancers over 10 km².