Petroglyphs
Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading.
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Air and Téneré | ||
Brú na Bóinne | ||
Caral-Supe | Several, including serpents and symbols | |
Caves of Yagul and Mitla | Caves around Caballito Blanco: Within rock shelters are paintings and petroglyphs, including a ‘candelabra’ and a white horse after which the ruins were named. (AB ev) | |
Central Amazon Conservation Complex | "petroglyphs at the mouth of the Jaú" (nom file) | |
Central Suriname Nature Reserve | These statements ignore the fact that the CSNR, or at least parts of it, have been occupied and used by both indigenous and tribal peoples for a variety of purposes and that there is additional archaeological evidence of traditional occupation, including cultural heritage sites such as petroglyphs. - WHS and Indigenous Peoples Rights | |
Chaco Culture | ||
Coa Valley and Siega Verde | ||
Desembarco del Granma National Park | pre-pottery making culture (ceremonial squares, dozens of archeological sites, petroglyphs, pictographs, etc.). (Nom file) | |
El Fuerte de Samaipata | Pre-Inca carvings | |
Gobustan Rock Art | ||
Golden Mountains of Altai | ||
Gorham's Cave Complex | A controversial symbolic engraving in Gorham's Cave | |
Greater Blue Mountains | Wollemi | |
Hawaii Volcanoes | Pu'u Loa Petroglyph Field | |
Himā Cultural area | wealth of rock inscriptions and petroglyphs (AB ev) | |
Ischigualasto / Talampaya | At Talampaya | |
Lena Pillars | ||
Lopé-Okanda | 1,800 to 2,000 petroglyphs | |
Los Glaciares | ||
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." | |
Petroglyphs of the Lake Onega and the White Sea | 4,500 petroglyphs (AB ev) | |
Petroglyphs of the Mongolian Altai | ||
Pitons Management Area | petroglyphs... prove the existence of an Amerindian Carib population (UNEP-WCMC) | |
Qhapaq Ñan | Cabuyal | |
Rapa Nui | ||
Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve | ||
Risco Caido | Several, including "The vicinity of Roque Bentayga also contains artificial caves, defensive walls and alphabetical petroglyphs." (nom file) | |
Rock Art in the Hail Region | ||
Rock Art of Alta | ||
Rock Carvings in Tanum | ||
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica | ||
Sulaiman-Too | ||
Tadrart Acacus | ||
Tanbaly | ||
Tassili n'Ajjer | ||
Tikal National Park | Petroglyph 1 is a 4x6m rock carving, depicting a captive. | |
Tower of Hercules | Monte dos Bicos | |
Tsingy de Bemaraha | A number of ancient cemeteries occur on the plateau and in a cave in the Manambolo Gorge which has petroglyphs doubtfully attributed to the proto-Malagasy Vazimba people (UNEP-WCMC) | |
Tsodilo | Stone snake | |
Twyfelfontein | ||
Uvs Nuur Basin | At Yamaalig | |
Viñales Valley | In several caves | |
Vredefort Dome | ||
Wadi Rum | over 25,000 petroglyphs (images engraved or painted on rocks) and around 20,000 examples of rock epigraphy (engraved inscriptions) (AB ev) | |
Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino | There are a number of prehistoric sites of importance on the peninsula, as well as petroglyphs, wall paintings and ancient ruined structures | |
Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi |
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