Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Petroglyphs':

  • Air and Ténéré
  • Bend of the Boyne
  • Chaco Culture
  • Coa Valley
  • El Fuerte de Samaipata Pre-Inca carvings
  • Gobustan Rock Art
  • Golden Mountains of Altai
  • Greater Blue Mountains Wollemi
  • Hawaii Volcanoes Pu'u Loa Petroglyph Field
  • Ischigualasto / Talampaya At Talampaya
  • Lopé-Okanda 1,800 to 2,000 petroglyphs
  • Olympic National Park
  • Orkhon Valley "Scattered widely across the nominated site are extensive remains of hundreds of Bronze Age graves some with stones engraved with herds of deer and images of the sun and moon."
  • Rapa Nui
  • Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
  • Rock Art of Alta
  • Rock Carvings in Tanum
  • Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
  • Sulamain-Too
  • Tadrart Acacus
  • Tamgaly
  • Tassili n'Ajjer
  • Tower of Hercules Monte dos Bicos
  • Tsodilo Stone snake
  • Twyfelfontein