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Partially excavated places tagged “hematite”

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Rock art sites4 Pictographs3 Archaeological wonders1 Cultural landscapes1 Landscapes1

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🇨🇳China3 🇮🇳India1

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hematite4 guangxi2 zhuang2 dadu1 frog shaman1 huashan1 luoyue1 mesolithic

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🇨🇳 China · Rock art

Dahekou Rock Paintings

Bronze Age to Tibetan Empire (Shang-Zhou to Tubo) · Qiang, Proto-Tibetan, Tibetan Bon

Garzê red cliff 300 figures yak-sun Qiang-Tibetan 1500 BCE–8th c. CE.

🇮🇳 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.