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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
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.
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.
In total, there are thousands of images called the Tanum petroglyphs, on about 600 panels within the World Heritage Area. These are concentrated in distinct areas along a 25 km stretch, and covers an area of about 51 hectares (126 acres or 0.5 km 2 ).
10,000–7000 BCE: "Horny Little Man," a petroglyph depicting a stick figure with an oversized phallus, is carved in Lapa do Santo, a cave in central-eastern Brazil, is the oldest reliably dated rock art in the Americas. [4]
Plan drawings of a boat with oars Plan drawings of a boat with oars View to the east from Jebel Jassassiyeh Dot carvings Green area behind Jebel Jassassiyeh. Jebel Jassassiyeh (Arabic: جبل الجساسية, romanized: Jabal al Jasāsīyah) is an area with early petroglyphs, residential ruins and pottery remnants (from the 15th century) in northeast Qatar.
Solar petroglyph at Puerco Pueblo. The site contains over 800 petroglyphs, incised on more than 100 boulders. [8] One of the petroglyphs which has been uncovered at the site appears to show the migration path from the Puerco Pueblo to the Crack-in-the-Rock site, today located within the Wupatki National Monument, dating from approximately 1150.
Reproductions of the petroglyphs, or rock engravings, of Ughtasar can be found all over Yerevan; they are inscribed onto silver jewelry, painted onto coffee cups, traced into hand-made pottery, and they adorn the walls of cafes. Reaching the petroglyphs of Ughtasar can be challenging.