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🇨🇳 China · Rock art

Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

Bronze Age to Eastern Han (Warring States 400 BCE – Han) · Luoyue (proto-Zhuang Baiyue)

Guangxi karst cliffs 38 panels 1900 frog-shaman figures 5th c. BCE–2nd c. CE, UNESCO 1508.

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🇮🇳 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.

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🇨🇳 China · Rock art

Zuojiang Huashan Ningming — Luoyue Serpent Cliff

Warring States to Eastern Han (403 BCE – 220 CE) · Luoyue (proto-Zhuang) Boyue culture

Serpent-bend cliff with dragon and drum motifs 8 km upstream from main panel.