Partially excavated rock art sites

🇨🇳 China · Rock art

Zuojiang Huashan West Chongzuo Rock Art

Bronze Age to Han · Luoyue / Lạc Việt (ancient Zhuang ancestors), Dian periphery

West bank cliff opposite main Hua Mountain with bronze-drum anthropomorph sequence.

🇮🇱 Israel · Rock art

Qafzeh Cave Terrace Burial 11 Double

Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art

Qafzeh Cave Terrace Burial 11 Double in North, Qafzeh Cave, Israel is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art

Pedra Pintada Cave Lower Panel

Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art

Pedra Pintada Cave Lower Panel in Pará, Monte Alegre, Brazil is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Cerro Sombrero Geoglyphs (Azapa Valley)

Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (Cabuza-Maytas-Chiribaya / Arica) · Arica cultural complex

Hill figures and extensive pre-Hispanic village on Cerro Sombrero (Hat Hill) in mid-Azapa Valley, 12 km inland from Arica.

🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder

Maski

Southern Neolithic (2500–1000) → Megalithic Iron (1000–300 BCE) → Mauryan → Satavahana · Southern Neolithic → Megalithic → Mauryan

Neolithic–Megalithic–Mauryan mound (c.2500 BCE–500 CE) at Maski, Raichur Doab — hillock settlement (12 ha) with Southern Neolithic grey ware, Megalithic iron burials and the decisive Maski Rock Edict…

🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art

Areni-1 Upper Gallery Petroglyphs

Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I · Late Chalcolithic Syunik-Areni, Kura-Araxes early

Upper chamber 12 m above Areni-1 winery cave with Chalcolithic lattice petroglyphs.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Cave

Lapa do Santo

Early Holocene (c.12000–8000 BCE) Lagoa Santa Paleoindian · Lagoa Santa Paleoindian (Luzia horizon)

Lapa do Santo is a Lower Karst limestone rockshelter at Mocambeiro, northern Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, at 730 m.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art

Khoit Tsenkher Cave (Blue Cave)

Upper Palaeolithic (Middle to Late) · Upper Palaeolithic Altai-Sayan hunter-gatherers (Mal'ta-Afontova tradition)

Mongolia's Palaeolithic blue cave with ostrich-mammoth paintings 38–20 ka.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art

Tamgaly II South Terrace Petroglyphs

Bronze Age to Early Nomadic · Andronovo-Fedorovo, Saka, Turkic

South terrace 600 m south of Tamgaly UNESCO core with Late Bronze chariot stratigraphy.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village

An Khe Paleolithic Site

Lower Paleolithic 800 ka → Hoabinhian late Pleistocene · Vietnamese Paleolithic — Ba River Acheulean-like (An Khe facies) predating Hoabinhian

An Khe Paleolithic Site — Lower Paleolithic chopper–chopping tool site (c.800 ka Acheulean-like bifaces) on Ba River terrace at An Khe 50 km E Pleiku, Gia Lai highland pass, discovered 2014…

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder

Laang Spean Cave

Late Pleistocene Hoabinhian (71–11 ka) → Early Holocene → Neolithic 3600 BCE · Hoabinhian (Southeast Asian hunter-gatherer) → Neolithic Austroasiatic

Hoabinhian–Neolithic rockshelter (c.80000–5000 BP) on Sampov karst hill near Battambang, Cambodia — 1 ha shelter with stratified Hoabinhian lithics (cobble tools, sumatraliths, edge-ground axes),…

🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art

Wadi Mathendous

Early Holocene to Camel Period (Pastoral/Horse/Camel) · Pastoral Saharan / Garamantine / Tuareg

Archetypal Saharan wadi gallery Mathendous with Bubalus-to-Camel engravings of extinct megafauna.

🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art

Messak Settafet

Pleistocene to Islamic (Middle Stone Age to Camel Period) · Bubalus hunter-gatherers / Pastoralists / Garamantes / Tuareg

350-km sandstone cuesta Messak Settafet — 15,000 engravings and lithic quarries spanning 12 ka.

🇿🇲 Zambia · Rock art

Mwela Rock Paintings

Later Stone Age to Iron Age (2000 BCE–1500 CE) · Batwa / Bantu

700 Later Stone Age paintings at Mwela Rocks near Kasama — Kasama–Isoka bush gallery.

🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art

Lamluda

Libyan to Roman (500 BCE–300 CE) · Libyan / Greek / Hellenistic

Libyan shaft necropolis with betyl horseman stela and Hooded-figure Karst chambers 500 BCE–300 CE.

🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art

Central Djenné-Jeno Settlement Inner — Djenné-Jeno (57-10)

Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic

Central Djenné-Jeno Settlement Inner — Djenné-Jeno (57-10) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Chalcolithic (regional) rock art of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.

🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art

Old Djenné-Jeno Reservoir Outer — Djenné-Jeno (57-21)

Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic

Old Djenné-Jeno Reservoir Outer — Djenné-Jeno (57-21) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Chalcolithic (regional) rock art of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 CE for reservoir and associated settlement.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Knockmany Passage Tomb (Annia's Cove)

Late Neolithic · Boyne / Loughcrew tradition (western outlier)

Hilltop 15 m passage tomb with three decorated stones (spirals/lozenges) — westernmost Boyne-style tomb in Ulster.

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Alto Ramírez Quebrada Lima Geoglyphs (Lluta Tributary Terrace)

Formative (500 BCE–600 CE) · Alto Ramírez / Cabuza

Terraced alluvial cone at Quebrada Lima mouth into Lluta at km 68 (1,050 m), 5° north-facing slope with 12 figures: 25-m lizards, 18-m camelid files and 40-m graded avenues with lateral berms (40 cm).

🇮🇳 India · Temple complex

Sittanavasal Jain Caves

Pallava–Pandya Early Medieval · Digambara Jain

Pallava–Pandya Jain cave complex (7th–9th c. CE) on Sittanavasal hillock, famed for Arivar Koil — earliest Tamil rock-cut Jain shrine with natural-cavern-pillared mandapa and Brahmi-Tamil inscription.

🇮🇳 India · Megalith

Brahmagiri — Chitradurga

Neolithic to Early Historic (1000 BCE–200 CE) · Southern Neolithic / Maurya

Brahmagiri — Chitradurga in Karnataka, Chitradurga, India is a Neolithic to Early Historic (1000 BCE–200 CE) megalithic attributed to Southern Neolithic / Maurya culture.