Specific Rock Art Sites

Lene Hara Cave (Indonesia)
Lene Hara Cave is a pre-Lapita site on the island of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago, with petroglyphs and painted rock art dated to more than 30,000 years ago.

Gottschall Rock Shelter
Gottschall Rockshelter, a cave located in the upper Mississippi River watershed of southwestern Wisconsin, is a religious shrine to an ancestor cult, and that it was used in this manner (with some interruptions, apparently) beginning about 300 AD up until the early 19th century.

Hueco Tanks (USA)
Hueco Tanks ("hueco" means hollow in Spanish; tanks refers to water storage) is an archaeological site in southwestern Texas

Mont Bego (France)
Rock art site in the French alps near the Italian border above Nice.

Petroglyph National Monument
From the US National Park Service, a website on one of their properties in New Mexico, Petroglyph National Forest.

Pedra Furada (Brazil)
The archaeological site of Pedra Furada, Brazil, is a stratified rockshelter with a very early (and hence contested) date.

Pictograph Cave
An electronic field trip to this site in Billings, Montana; geared to the 6th grade student.

Rock Carvings of the Karakorum Highway, Pakistan
The results of a survey along the Karakorum Highway, Pakistan by Karl Jettmar of Heidelburg University and A.H. Dani of the Quaid-i-Azam University of Islamabad.

Quebrado de Santo Domingo (Peru)
The archaeological site called Quebrada de Santo Domingo is along a very scenic 32 square kilometer long dry river valley off the Rio Moche in Peru.

Rock Paintings of Bhimabetaka
Traveller K. L. Kamat takes a trip 40 km south of Bhopal to see ancient rockshelter drawings.

Valcamonica (Italy)
Valcamonica is the name of a valley in northern Italy that is home to numerous rock art sites, some as early as the Upper Paleolithic and into the Iron Age.

Uan Muhuggiag (Libya)
The cave of Uan Muhuggiag contains an occupation and rock art, located in the Acacus massif of the central Saharan desert of Libya.