Archaeological site, Rock Art

Altamira Cave
The 'Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain' feature drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands.
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Chongoni Rock Art
The Chongoni Rock Art Area consists of 127 sites that feature the richest concentration of rock art in Central Africa.
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Coa Valley
The Prehistoric Rock-Art Sites in the Coa Valley date from the Upper Palaeolithic (22,000–10,000 BC) and are considered a masterpiece of prehistoric art.
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Cueva de las Manos
Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, is a cave of archaeological and paleontogical importance. The Cave lies in the valley of the Pinturas River, in an isolated spot in the Patagonian landscape.
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Decorated Grottoes of the Vézère Valley
Decorated Grottoes of the Vézère Valley is a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its cave paintings.
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Gobustan Rock Art
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape has an outstanding collection of more then 600,000 rock paintings.
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Kakadu National Park
Kakadu National Park is one of the larger national parks in the world, consisting of four major river systems and various landforms.
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Kondoa
The Kondoa Rock Art Sites include over 150 natural caves or shelters that have been used for rock paintings over at least two millennia.
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Matobo Hills
The Matobo Hills are a living cultural landscape in south-western Zimbabwe, where people have interacted for over 100.
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Rock Art of Alta
The Rock Art of Alta consists of more than 5000 carvings and paintings on several sites around Alta. They were discovered in 1972.
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Rock Carvings in Tanum
The rock carvings of Tanum are over 400 groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs located in an area of about 45 km².
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Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
The Rock Drawings in Valcamonica are the greatest complex of rock drawings in sub-Alpine Italy, with approximately 250,000 petroglyphs drawn by members of the Camunni tribe on hundreds of exposed rocks dating from about 8000 BC.
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Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
The Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco is the name of the prehistoric rock art found in Baja California, Mexico.
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Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
The Bhimbetka rock shelters compose an archaeological site located in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin
The Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula consists of 727 prehistoric rock art sites.
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Serra da Capivara National Park
Serra da Capivara National Park is a national park in the north east of Brazil. It has many ancient caves bearing cave paintings.
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Tadrart Acacus
The Rock-art Sites of Tadrart Acacus are located in a desert area in western Libya (part of the Sahara).
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Tamgaly
Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly is the best researched and documented site of rock art in Central Asia.
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Tassili n'Ajjer
The Tassili n'Ajjer is a mountain range in the Sahara desert in southeast Algeria. Much of the range, including the cypresses and archaeological sites, is protected in a National park, Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site.
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Twyfelfontein
Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes contains 2,000 figures of rock carvings. The figures were created over a couple of thousand years before 1000 AD.
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Ukhahlamba / Drakensberg Park
The uKhahlamba or Drakensberg National Park is located in KwaZulu-Natal, near the border with Lesotho.
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