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2. Rock art - Wikipedia

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   The defining characteristic of rock art is that it is placed on natural rock surfaces; in this way, it is distinct from artworks placed on constructed walls or free-standing sculpture. [17] As such, rock art is a form of landscape art, and includes designs that have been placed on boulder and cliff faces, cave walls, and ceilings, and on the ...

3. Rock art of the Chumash people - Wikipedia

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   Painted Cave, Santa Barbara County, California. Chumash rock art is a genre of paintings on caves, mountains, cliffs, or other living rock surfaces, created by the Chumash people of Southern California. Pictographs and petroglyphs are common through interior California, the rock painting tradition thrived until the 19th century. Chumash rock ...

4. Cave painting - Wikipedia

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   Originating in the Paleolithic period, the rock art found in Khoit Tsenkher Cave, Mongolia, includes symbols and animal forms painted from the walls up to the ceiling. [50] Stags, buffalo, oxen, ibex, lions, Argali sheep, antelopes, camels, elephants, ostriches, and other animal pictorials are present, often forming a palimpsest of overlapping ...

5. Gwion Gwion rock paintings - Wikipedia

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   [citation needed] Due to the fine detail and control found in the images, such as strands of hair painted in thicknesses of 1–2 millimetres (0.039–0.079 in), it has been suggested that feather quills may have been used as a technique to apply the paint to the rock walls; an imprint of a feather found at one site may support this possibility ...

6. Manyana Rock Paintings - Wikipedia

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   The Manyana Rock Paintings are a collection of rock art and caves located at the Kolobeng hills, neighbouring Manyana, Southern District, Botswana. It is believed that the artworks were made by the Khoikhoi or the San people between 1100 AD and 1700 AD. [1] The paintings are found on five cliff areas around the rocky hill. [2]

7. Caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst - Wikipedia

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   Pig-deer paint paintings. The caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst are a cave complex, where prehistoric finds were made. [3] The whole complex is also called "Prehistoric place Leang-Leang"; the name stems from the Makassarese language. [4] The various caves — named Pettae, Jane, Saripa, Jarie, Karrasa, and so on — consist of limestone.