🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Lascaux Hall Extension Panel West
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Lascaux Hall Extension Panel West in Dordogne, France is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Cup-Mark Boulder South
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Classical
Cup-Mark Boulder South in Cederberg, South Africa is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Rock art
Paquimé Casas Grandes Compound — Atacama (Copiapo)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Paquimé Casas Grandes Compound in Atacama, Chile is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) rock art attributed to Medieval culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Vihara Cell Group West — Southwest (Santa Fe)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Vihara Cell Group West in Southwest, United States is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
News Paper Rock Panel East — Dordogne (Sarlat)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
News Paper Rock Panel East in Dordogne, France is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) rock art attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Pukara Stone Enclosure
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Bronze Age
Pukara Stone Enclosure in Andean Highlands, Peru is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Altamira Bison Ceiling North — Cusco (Cusco)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Altamira Bison Ceiling North in Cusco, Peru is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) rock art attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Rock art
Shikhara Spire South — Angkor (Siem Reap)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Shikhara Spire South in Angkor, Cambodia is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Medieval culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Rock art
Cueva del Diablo Petroglyph — Atacama (Copiapo)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Cueva del Diablo Petroglyph in Atacama, Chile is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) rock art attributed to Medieval culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Wadi Sura North Gallery (Gilf Kebir North)
Neolithic rock art (6500–3200 BCE) · Gilf Kebir pastoral (Saharan Neolithic)
North wall of Wadi Sura with Archers vs cattle battle scene.
🇪🇹 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cave
Creswell Crags Gorge
Middle Palaeolithic to Creswellian (120k–10k BCE) · Neanderthal / Creswellian
Creswell Crags Gorge in Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire, Magnesian Limestone, United Kingdom is a Middle Palaeolithic to Creswellian (120k–10k BCE) cave attributed to Neanderthal / Creswellian 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.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Rock art
Kandahar — Ashokan Greek-Aramaic Bilingual Inscription Extension
Mauryan (260 BCE) · Mauryan Greek–Aramaic
Kandahar — Ashokan Greek-Aramaic Bilingual Inscription Extension in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan is a Mauryan (260 BCE) rock_art attributed to Mauryan Greek–Aramaic.
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock shelter
Tadrat Acacus — Ti-n-Torha East Shelter Pastoral
Acacus pastoral (7000–2000 BCE) radiocarboned · Acacus pastoral (Early Pastoral 6300–5400 BCE)
Acacus Ti-n-Torha excavated by Mori & Barich 1980s, 16k Acacus rock art site UNESCO.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Saimaluu-Tash Araköl Lake — Mid-Mountain Boulder Field
Early Iron Age to Karakhanid (800 BCE – 1000 CE) · Saka to Kyrgyz–Karakhanid nomad
Mid-bench tarn with herder and Arabic blessing graffiti 600 m below plateau.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Rock art
Stora Hammars Picture Stones
Viking Age (c.700–800 CE) · Gotlandic Viking
Cemetery at Stora Hammars farm near Lärbro with four of Gotland's most famous picture stones (Bunge Museum originals, copies in situ) — 3 m high slabs with detailed ship, warrior, Valhalla and…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Gilf Kebir — Cave of Swimmers Annex Foggini-Mestekawi Cave
Holocene humid (7000–3000 BCE rock art) · Gilf hunter-gatherers (pre-pastoral)
Wadi Sura excavated by Almásy 1933 and Kuper 2009–, 7000 BCE hands, Lacan 7000.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
La Petaca
Late Intermediate 1000–1470 CE Chachapoya rock art and chullpa-mast tombs · Chachapoyas
High cloud-forest complex at 2950 m southeast of Leimebamba: overhang shelter 30 m long retains 200+ red ochre paintings (anthropomorphs, camelids, geometric) and adjacent rectangular chullpa…
🇱🇾 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.