Cave Paintings and Rock Art

Cave paintings and other forms of rock art are the very first nonportable art in the world, pecked and painted and scratched and smudged onto the walls of caves and on outcropped rock surfaces.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a documentary film by Werner Herzog, with many images of the rock art paintings of Chauvet Cave. A review of the film.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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