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Tagspetroglyph
29 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Paleolithic to Iron Age (8,000 BCE–16th c. CE peak; Epipaleolithic to medieval) · Camunni (Iron Age Alpine) and earlier hunter groups
Valcamonica – 140,000+ petroglyphs carved over 8,000 years (8th millennium BCE–16th c.) across 250 km² Brescia Alps. 8 parks (Naquane 104 rocks, Seradina-Bedolina map).
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000–1000 BCE) · South Indian Neolithic-Iron Age
Edakkal Cleft – natural rock fissure 96×22 ft at 1,200m on Edakkal Hill (Ambukuthi mala) with dense pecked petroglyphs: human stick, dog, wheel, bow, star, script-like symbols and 5,000+ figures.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic through Hohokam 7500 BCE–1400 CE · Hohokam and Archaic–Patayan
4,000-petroglyph basalt concentration, 7500 BCE–1400 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon projection onto pre-Inca petroglyph horizon Pre-Columbian to Early Colonial hypothesis · Inca Vilcabamba hypothesis projected onto pre-Inca rock art (unvalidated) / Machiguenga
Most-photographed Paititi candidate — sandstone mesa terraces above Pusharo petroglyphs on Pantiacolla range, 670 m, no verified masonry.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Medieval (3000 BCE–1500 CE) · Central Asian petroglyph tradition (Boysun UNESCO)
Tashkirmansay is 50-m-long gorge wall with 1000+ petroglyphs — Bronze Age ibex/chariots, Iron Age archers, Turkic tamgas at 1100 m Boysun UNESCO Landscape.
