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🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Epipalaeolithic to Neolithic (Holocene humid A, B) · Gilf Kebir Holocene hunter-herders (pre-pastoral)
7,000 BCE Gilf Kebir painted shelters—8,000 hand stencils, 'swimmers' and therianthropic beasts in hyper-arid heart of Sahara.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Bronze to Early Saka, Afanasievo to Saka · Afanasievo to Early Saka Altai
Kalbak-Tash multi-period kurgan field (2800-600 BCE) of 22 cromlechs co-located with 500-panel rock-art gorge on Chuya River.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Middle Stone Age to Iron Age (40,000 BCE–500 CE paintings peak) · Hunter-gatherer (Sandawe ancestors) / Pastoral Cushitic / Bantu Isanzu
Sub-cluster of Kondoa WH 150 shelters at Kolo with Kisese II stratified 40 ka to 1,500 CE and layered hunter-to-pastoral-to-Bantu style sequence.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic (Solutrean–Magdalenian) · Solutrean–Magdalenian hunter-gatherers of western Iberia
443 Palaeolithic figures on Águeda schist—UNESCO trans-frontier extension of Côa Valley (20–10k BCE).
🇸🇴 Somaliland · Rock art
Neolithic pastoral to Recent (2500 BCE–1000 CE) · Pastoral Cushitic → Somali
Gorge system of 10 shelters with Somaliland's most naturalistic pastoral bovines, giraffes and elongated humans.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Epipalaeolithic to modern with Iron Age peak · Camunni (Rhaetic-adjacent Alpine) and predecessors
140,000 figures on 2,000 Alpine slabs—world's densest European rock art valley (UNESCO 1979 No.1 Italy).
🇸🇴 Somaliland · Rock art
Neolithic pastoral (3500–1500 BCE pastoral art) · Pastoral Cushitic (early Somali ancestor) / Pre-Somaliland
14 m sandstone shelter with 22 polychrome fat-tailed sheep pastoral panel 3500 BCE – among earliest domestic sheep iconography.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Rock art
Holocene: Neolithic to Bronze Age to Thamudic · Successive Arabian Holocene cultures (hunter-herder to caravaneer)
10,000-year petroglyph palimpsest at Jebel Umm Sinman—UNESCO rock art on a vanished lake shore.
🇵🇪 Peru · Cave
Lithic – Preceramic (c.12000–8000 BCE earliest; 8600 BCE cultigens) · Andean Lithic / Guitarrero tradition
Guitarrero Cave is a shallow limestone rockshelter on the west flank of the Cordillera Blanca above the Santa River at 2,580 m near Yungay, Ancash.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Rock art
Mesolithic Hoabinhian 12,000–7000 → Da But → Phung Nguyen 2000 BCE · Hoa Binh / Hoabinhian Mesolithic (Vietnam northern karst)
Hoa Binh (Hòa Bình) culture type-site — karst rockshelter caves (12,000–2000 BCE, Mesolithic–Neolithic) 70 km south Hanoi on Ma River limestone karst, excavated 1927 Colani (ÉFEO) and 1970s–2000s Ha…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Rock art
Early Holocene humid to Bronze/Thamudic arid · Neolithic hunter-herders to Thamudic caravaneers
UNESCO escarpment with 300 panels—lions on leashed dogs and savanna fauna from Arabia's humid phase.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Itacoatiara tradition disputed 2000 BCE – 200 CE (no direct date, varve patina) · Indigenous Brazilian Itacoatiara / Agreste rock-art tradition
24 m gneiss wall with 400 spirals claimed Orion map and Phoenician writing — rock art with fringe lost-tech overlay.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Rock art
Neolithic 6000–1000 BCE → Bronze Age overlay · Korean Neolithic maritime hunters (Ulsan Daegok)
Bangudae — Korean Neolithic whaling petroglyph rock art (c.6000–1000 BCE) 20 km west Ulsan, Ulju County, Daegok-cheon vertical cliff 4×5 m, discovered 1971 Mun Myeong-dae.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Rock art
Neolithic 4000 BCE → Bronze Age → Silla 6th–9th c CE · Korean Neolithic → Bronze Age → Silla (Unified Silla)
Cheonjeon-ri — Neolithic–Silla rock art panel (c.4000 BCE–9th c CE palimpsest) 30 km west Ulsan, Ulju County, Daegok-cheon stream bank, excavated 1970–73 Mun Myeong-dae.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Later Stone Age to Recent (130 ka occupation; paintings 2000 BCE–1000 CE) · San hunter-gatherers (Damara area ancestors)
2,573 m inselberg with >1,000 rock shelters, including Maack 'White Lady' 2,000 BCE shaman panel and 45,000 individual paintings.
🇹🇩 Chad · Rock art
Neolithic to Islamic (6000 BCE–16th c CE) · Saharan herders (Bovid, Horse, Camel groups)
600-km Saharan massif with Niola Doa 200-m cattle-horse frieze and 3,000 images 6th millennium–16th c.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Jomon Mid–Late 2500–1800 BCE (Hokkaido) · Jomon Hokkaido (Oshima–Shakotan)
Hokkaido Jomon stone circle (2500–1800 BCE) at Oshoro Otaru — 30 m with 47 boulders and Fusen rock art above Oshoro Bay.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Late Woodland – Fort Ancient (1000–1650 CE) · Fort Ancient (Late Woodland Mississippian)
Sandstone cliff-face bearing 37 Fort Ancient–culture petroglyphs (1000–1650 CE) incised on Mississippian Black Hand sandstone at edge of unglaciated Allegheny Plateau.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Neolithic to Middle Holocene (6000–1000 BCE) · Saharan Neolithic pastoral
1,940-m granite triple-border massif with Karkur Talh 25 km and bovid-hunter rock art 6000 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Paleo-Indian (Clovis, ~12,700 BP) · Clovis (Paleo-Indian)
Only Clovis burial (12,600 BCE) — 18-month child with 112 ochre-stained tools and first Paleo-Indian genome, Montana.
🇨🇦 Canada · Archaeological wonder
Archaic to Historic 1800 BCE–1920 CE; main biographic style 1730–1890 CE (post-horse) · Blackfoot Confederacy (Kainai, Piikani, Siksika) and ancestors (Besant, Avonlea, Old Women's phase)
Badlands sanctuary of sandstone hoodoos along Milk River where Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) inscribed and pecked >138 rock-art panels (1,200 images: warriors, horses after 1730, hoof biographic,…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Bohuslän rock art tradition)
UNESCO Bohuslän rock art — 600 panels / 2500 pecked figures (ships, sun, ploughs) on granite, 1700–500 BCE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Early Nordic Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Scania elite)
Scandinavian Bronze Age masterpiece — 75 m cairn with cist bearing eight slabs of ship and solar carvings, c.1400 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Pre-Clovis to Late Woodland · Pre-Clovis (Meadowcroft) to Woodland
16,000-year stratified rockshelter (Miller lanceolate horizon) with basketry preservation, Pennsylvania.
