🇫🇷 France · Rock shelter
Castel Merle
Castel Merle (also known as Castel-Merle or Castelmerle) is a complex of ten prehistoric rock shelters (French: abris) in Sergeac, in the Dordogne department of France.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Pinnacle Point Caves — Early Modern Human Site
Middle Stone Age (164–50 ka) · Early Homo sapiens coastal foragers
Pinnacle Point is the 164,000–50,000 BP sea-cliff cave complex (PP13B, PP5-6) 12 km E of Mossel Bay where Marean found earliest heat-treated silcrete (72 ka), bladelet microliths, marine shellfish…
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Bhimbetka — Auditorium Cave Ancillary Panel
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Bhimbetka — Auditorium Cave Ancillary Panel in Madhya Pradesh, Raisen, Bhimbetka, India is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art att…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Blombos Cave — Middle Stone Age Ochre Workshop
Middle Stone Age (100–70 ka ochre horizon, Still Bay 75 ka) · Homo sapiens Middle Stone Age (Still Bay/Howiesons Poort)
Blombos Cave is the 34 m-apse calcarenite sea-cliff shelter 300 km E of Cape Town where Christopher Henshilwood found 100,000–70,000 BP ochre workshop and earliest abstract engravings.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pınarbaşı (Bor)
Epipalaeolithic to Aceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Epipalaeolithic (Kebaran-like) → PPNA
Epipalaeolithic to Early Neolithic rockshelter and open-air spring-site (c.14,000–7000 BCE) on limestone spur at Pınarbaşı, type-site for Central Anatolian hunter-gatherer sedentism before…
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Theopetra Cave — Middle Avra Gate (Thessaly)
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) · Mousterian / Upper Palaeolithic
Theopetra Cave — Middle Avra Gate (Thessaly) in Thessaly, Trikala, Theopetra, Greece is a Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) cave attributed to…
🇭🇷 Croatia · Cave
Vindija Cave — Upper Layer G (Krapina-Zagorje)
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) · Mousterian / Upper Palaeolithic
Vindija Cave — Upper Layer G (Krapina-Zagorje) in Krapina-Zagorje, Donja Voća, Croatia is a Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) cave attributed …
🇮🇱 Israel · Cave
Sefunim Cave
Upper Palaeolithic to Natufian (c.35,000–11,000 BP) · Levantine Aurignacian/Ahmarian → Kebaran → Natufian
North Carmel cave (c.35–11 ka, Kebaran–Natufian microliths, Ronen excavations) near Nahal Sefunim.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Kunjhun Rock Art — Vindhya
Mesolithic (8000 BCE) · Vindhya Mesolithic
Kunjhun Rock Art — Vindhya in Uttar Pradesh, Vindhya range, India is a Mesolithic (8000 BCE) rock art attributed to Vindhya Mesolithic culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Cave
Qanat Grotto
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Qanat Grotto in River Nile State, Sudan is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) cave attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cave
Paviland Cave — Goat's Hole
Upper Palaeolithic (33000 BCE) · Aurignacian / Gravettian
Paviland Cave — Goat's Hole in Swansea, Gower Peninsula, Wales, United Kingdom is a Upper Palaeolithic (33000 BCE) cave attributed to Aurignacian / Gravettian culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cave
Pontnewydd Cave
Neanderthal (230k–225k BP) · Neanderthal (Mousterian)
Pontnewydd Cave in Denbighshire, Elwy Valley, Wales, United Kingdom is a Neanderthal (230k–225k BP) cave attributed to Neanderthal (Mousterian) culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Rock shelter
Asprochaliko Rock Shelter
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic · Mousterian / Gravettian
Large limestone rock shelter in the Louros River valley, Epirus, excavated by Higgs (1964) revealing Mousterian to Upper Palaeolithic layers spanning 100,000–26,000 years BP.
🇫🇷 France · Rock shelter
La Quina
La Quina is a Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic site in Gardes-le-Pontaroux, Charente, France. Two Neanderthal skulls were found there, La Quina 5 and La Quina 18.
🇫🇷 France · Rock shelter
Abri du Pape at Brassempouy
Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) · Gravettian / Noailles
Rock shelter at Brassempouy, Landes, famous for Gravettian occupation (29,000–22,000 BP) yielding the Dame de Brassempouy ivory Venus (23,000 BP) and eight other ivory figurines, with rich Gravettian…
🇮🇳 India · Rock shelter
Gudiyam Cave
Gudiyam Caves are rock shelters in South India and known for prehistoric stone tools and culture. They were first identified by British geologist Robert Bruce Foote.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock shelter
Belbaşı Rock Shelter
Epipalaeolithic to Early Neolithic (12000–6500 BCE) · Epipalaeolithic–Neolithic
Epipalaeolithic to Early Neolithic (12000–6500 BCE) rock-shelter of Epipalaeolithic–Neolithic in Antalya Province, Korkuteli (c.12000 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock shelter
Beldibi Rock Shelter
Epipalaeolithic (14000–9000 BCE) · Epipalaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic (14000–9000 BCE) rock-shelter of Epipalaeolithic in Antalya Province, Kemer (c.14000 BCE).
🇫🇷 France · Rock shelter
Cro-Magnon rock shelter
Cro-Magnon ( kroh-MAN-yon or kroh-MAG-nən; French: abri de Cro-Magnon [abʁi d(ə) kʁomaɲɔ̃]; Occitan: abric de Cròsmanhon) is an Aurignacian (Upper Paleolithic) site, located in a rock shelter in the…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Cave
Mezin Double Burial Pit 7
Upper Palaeolithic (35000–12000 BP) · Upper Palaeolithic
Mezin Double Burial Pit 7 in Chernihiv, Mezin, Ukraine is a Upper Palaeolithic (35000–12000 BP) cave attributed to Upper Palaeolithic.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Cave
Spirit Cave Mae Hong Son
Upper Paleolithic 18,000 BP → Hoabinhian 10,000–5500 BP → Neolithic 5300 BP pottery · Hoabinhian Tenasserim Shan Hills — Spirit Cave foragers (Tham Lod Rockshelter)
Spirit Cave Mae Hong Son — Hoabinhian rock shelter (18,000–5500 BP, Tham Lod Rockshelter) in Shan Hills karst at Pang Mapha 110 km N Mae Hong Son, excavated 1966 by C. Gorman (Univ.
🇺🇸 United States · Cave
Marmes Rockshelter
Paleo-Indian to Protohistoric (10,000 BCE – 1800 CE) · Columbia Plateau Paleo-Indian to Cayuse
Marmes Rockshelter in Washington, United States is a Paleo-Indian to Protohistoric (10,000 BCE – 1800 CE) cave attributed to Columbia Plateau Paleo-Indian to Cayuse culture.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Adamgarh Rock Shelters
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.
🇲🇼 Malawi · Rock art
Chongoni Rock-Art Area (Dedza)
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.