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Cave Art
Cave art refers to paintings, murals, drawings, etchings, carvings, and pecked artwork on the interior of rockshelters and caves.

Contemporary Approaches to World Rock Art
From Mike Morwood at the University of New England, Australia, recent research in petroglyphs and pictographs.

Gazetteer of English Caves
A database of rock shelters in England containing prehistoric human or hominid remains.

Geoglyphs
A geoglyph is a work of rock art that was made from moving or arranging stones on a landscape.

Paleolithic Notation
Paleolithic notation is the term used by archaeologists for deliberate markings made by our ancestors to count objects or remember events in a sequence.

Petroglyphs
Petroglyphs are a form of prehistoric art found in many cultures around the world and at many times.

Piedra Pintada Books
A mail order book store specializing in books on rock art.

Rock Art Acoustics
Pretty interesting website from Stephen J. Waller, on the frequency of unusual sounds in rock art caves and rockshelters (and that pun was in honor of Mr. Waller, who did not stoop to make one concerning rock acoustics).

Rock Art as Culture and Praxis
An article by William D. Hyder on the identity of the Basketmaker culture of the American Southwest as expressed through rock art.

Rock Art FAQ
So, just what is rock art? From the Provincial Museum of Alberta.

Rock Art Investigations: Maarten van Hoek
Maarten van Hoek has built an impressive website of his investigations throughout the world, with an emphasis on preservation.

Rock Art
Rock art is the collective term used for various forms of artistic expression by humans and their immediate ancestors

Visions on the Rocks
A news story from Science News Online comparing rock art from all of the world, with discussion by David Lewis-Williams, Jean Clottes, among others.