Showing posts with the label Rock Art

Maliwawa Figures: A Rock Art Style Like No Other

Mar 19, 2021

Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, has a remarkable range and number of rock art sites, rivalling that of Europe, southern Africa and ...

The Giraffes of Dabous

Aug 13, 2019

In northern Niger, about half-way between the towns of Agadez and Arlit, and a few miles west of the tar road connecting these two places li...

Nine Mile Canyon: The World’s Longest Art Gallery

Sep 13, 2016

The Nine Mile Canyon in eastern Utah, in the United States, is home to one of the largest concentration of native American rock art in North...

The Fine Cave Paintings of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave

May 23, 2016

Of all prehistoric cave paintings discovered in different parts of the world, the ones at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France des...

The Prehistoric Rock Art of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria

Mar 25, 2016

Tassili n'Ajjer is a vast desert plateau in southern Algeria, stretching from the borders with Niger and Libya to the east, to as far as...

The Newspaper Rock in Utah

Sep 2, 2015

Newspaper Rock is a 200 square foot rock surface in San Juan County, Utah, that is covered by hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs — rock ...

The Cave of Hands in Patagonia, Argentina

Sep 17, 2013

Prehistoric rock paintings, handprints and stencils span all continents, and began appearing on rock walls around the world at least 30,000 ...