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Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc by Luis Filipe Gaspar
Oldest cultural WHS
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The three oldest cultural sites, excluding fossil hominid remains and individual buildings in cities.
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Year
Score
Tsodilo
Botswana
Inscribed
:
2001
3.08
20
11
68000 B.C. (1)
Serra da Capivara
Brazil
Inscribed
:
1991
3.11
12
6
Some paintings are 25000 years old, so 23000 B.C. (3)
Qal'at al-Bahrain
Bahrain
Inscribed
:
2005
2.51
100
6
23000 B.C. (3)
Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
France
Inscribed
:
2014
3.44
115
8
30,000 to 32,000 BP (2)