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One of the larger rocks of Nordic Bronze Age petroglyphs in Scandinavia (at 22 metres tall and 6 metres wide), the Vitlyckehäll, is located in Tanumshede. It contains nearly 300 carvings of a variety of scenes, people, and objects. [2]
The Bardal rock carvings (Norwegian: Bardalfeltet) is a large collection of petroglyphs on Bardal Farm in Steinkjer Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.What makes the rock carvings at Bardal especially noteworthy is the presence of figures from the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age all on the same rock surface, with the newer figures having been carved on top of figures from the Stone Age.
On Bornholm, which in prehistoric times belonged more to the Swedish cultural sphere, there are numerous large carvings on cliff faces - mostly of ships. Denmark's largest complex of rock art is at Madsebakke in Allinge-Gudhjem. There are also noteworthy petroglyphs at Blåholt, Lille Strandbygård , and Storløkkebakken.
The petroglyphs are etched into lava rocks from cliffs formed millions of years ago and provide a glimpse thousands of years into the past. Yellowstone, petrified watermelon, rock art: These ...
There are rock carvings in all the southern and central Swedish provinces, except Närke. In Värmland, they occur only on the Värmlandsnäs peninsula on the shores of Lake Vänern. Petroglyphs are especially common: In northern Bohuslän up to Østfold in Norway, Around Enköping in southwestern Uppland,
The state’s most well-known group of petroglyphs – prehistoric stone carvings – is probably Leo Petroglyphs and Nature Preserve in Jackson County, about 75 miles southeast of Columbus.
Paul Nevin ponders his favorite petroglyph on Big Indian Rock in the Susquehanna River south of Safe Harbor Dam. He has published a booklet about the ancient Native American carvings to share what ...
The prehistoric art of this area is not as well known as the more popular rock carving sites of Scandinavia, such as the Rock carvings at Alta, the Nämforsen rock art site, or the many petroglyph sites in Bohuslän, Sweden - but in recent years the amount of research into this corpus has increased, due largely to the work of professor Kalle ...