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Verified places tagged “forest”

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Ormaig Rock Art

Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic

Forest clearing cup-and-ring cluster on Creag Mhor, 120+ motifs, c.3000 BCE.

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🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art

Iwo Eleru Cave

Middle Stone Age to Iron Age (92,000 BP–500 CE) · MSA/LSA forest foragers

Iwo Eleru Rock Shelter in southwest Nigeria forest is Later Stone Age to Iron Age shelter 92,000–3,000 BP with 13ka calvaria of early modern human with archaic features (Iwo Eleru skull) sparking…