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  2. Bhimbetka rock shelters - Wikipedia

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    The rock shelters and caves provide evidence of human settlement and the cultural evolution from hunter-gatherers to agriculture, and expressions of prehistoric spirituality. [8] Some of the Bhimbetka rock shelters feature prehistoric cave paintings and the earliest are dated to 10,000 BCE, corresponding to the Indian Mesolithic.

  3. File:1 of the rock shelter caves at Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh ...

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    Bhimbetka rock shelters and caves are a UNESCO world heritage site consisting of over 750 caves and shelters over 10 kilometers and 7 hills. the archaeological site dates between 100,000 to 1,700 CE, with cave paintings that are estimated to about 30,000 years ago. The site is about 45 kilometers south of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Date

  4. Cave paintings in India - Wikipedia

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    The history of cave paintings in India or rock art range from drawings and paintings from prehistoric times, beginning in the caves of Central India, typified by those at the Bhimbetka rock shelters from around 10,000 BP, to elaborate frescoes at sites such as the rock-cut artificial caves at Ajanta and Ellora, extending as late as 6th–10th century CE.

  5. Buddhist caves in India - Wikipedia

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    Early examples included overhanging rock decorated with rock-cut designs. [7] The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, a World Heritage Site, are located on the edge of the Deccan Plateau, where dramatic erosion has left massive sandstone outcrops. The area's many caves and grottos have yielded primitive tools and decorative rock paintings. [8]

  6. Indian rock-cut architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, now designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are located on the edge of the Deccan Plateau, where dramatic erosion has left massive sandstone outcrops. Researchers have found primitive tools and decorative rock paintings made by humans in the area's many caves and grottos , the earliest paintings dating to ...

  7. Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka - Wikipedia

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  8. Raisen - Wikipedia

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    The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in the Raisen District that spans the prehistoric paleolithic and mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period. It exhibits the earliest traces of human life on the Indian subcontinent and evidence of Stone Age starting at the site in Acheulian times.

  9. Archaeology of India - Wikipedia

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    Bhimbetka rock shelters is also a paleolithic (Old Stone Age) and mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) site. Mesolithic sites (250,000 BC–10,000 BC) ...