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  2. Petroglyph - Wikipedia

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    Petroglyphs of the archaeological site of Las Labradas, situated on the coast of the municipality of San Ignacio (Mexican state of Sinaloa) A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.

  3. List of petroglyphs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons; Black Mountain Rock Art District; Chalfant Petroglyph Site; Chumash Indian Museum; Coso Rock Art District; Hemet Maze Stone; Meadow Lake Petroglyphs; Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California) Petroglyph Point Archeological Site; Ring Mountain (California) Yellow Jacket Petroglyphs

  4. Prehistoric rock engravings of the Fontainebleau Forest

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    [8]:79,80 Both schools of petroglyphs are thought to date to the late Bronze Age. [7] [8]:19. Sketch of a detail of an engraved rock panel showing a semi-human figure holding a rattle. The depiction of these rattles in the Malmontagne petroglyphs provides one basis, among several, for their dating to the late Bronze Age.

  5. Asphendou Cave petroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The small Asphendou Cave in western Crete preserves a number of overlapping petroglyphs on a limestone speleothem that may have been made between the Upper Palaeolithic and the early Bronze Age. The oldest of these, that possibly dates from the Upper Palaeolithic, depicts a number of quadrupeds which may represent extinct Candiacervus deer.

  6. Mysterious symbols found near footprints shed light on ...

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    The rock carvings, which archaeologists call petroglyphs, are at a site called Serrote do Letreiro in Paraíba, an agricultural state on the eastern tip of Brazil. Researchers first observed the ...

  7. Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The World Heritage Site comprises 33 petroglyph sites in two clusters. The rock carvings were created from 7 to 4 millennia ago and represent a glimpse into the lives of Neolithic cultures of Fennoscandia. [1] The Lake Onega cluster, Pudozhsky District, has 22 petroglyph sites with over 1200 figures. They mostly depict birds, animals ...

  8. List of archaeological periods (North America) - Wikipedia

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    200 CE – 1450 CE Fremont: 400 CE – 1350 CE Patayan: 700 CE – 1550 CE Mogollon: 700 CE – 1400 CE in East and by peoples Early Woodland Period 1000 BCE – 1 CE Adena culture: 1000 – 100 BCE Deptford culture – Atlantic region 800 BCE – 700 CE Deptford culture – Gulf region 500 BCE – 200 CE Middle Woodland Period 1 – 500

  9. Konkan geoglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The Konkan geoglyphs, sometimes called Konkan Petroglyphs, are a form of prehistoric rock art found along the Konkan coast of India, particularly in Maharashtra and Goa. [1] They consist of carvings on laterite plateaus ( saḍā ) and are believed to date back 12,000 years [ 1 ] [ 2 ]