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Alsen, Sweden

Petroglyphs in Glösa in the centre of Alsen were made approximately 6 000 years ago.

Ånnsjön

The large, naturalistic carvings are similar in style and technology to petroglyphs of the Norwegian Nordland coast,

Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve

Other petroglyphs survived until 1890, many recorded by Dr. James Salisbury and his brother Charles, of Newark, who deposited their tracings and notes with the American Antiquarian Society in Massachusetts.

Great Falls Park

Native American petroglyphs have been discovered within the park on cliffs overlooking Difficult Run.

Holy Spirit Grotto

The Holy Spirit Grotto (La Gruta del Espíritu Santo in Spanish), in Corinto, Morazán, El Salvador, is a registered national monument of petroglyphs.

Kanozero Petroglyphs

The Kanozero Petroglyphs are a set of rock drawings discovered in 1997 on an island in Lake Kanozero in the southwestern part of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

Karakol

The Regional Museum, following some sponsorship from the nearby Canadian gold mining concern, has exhibits on the Issyk Kul Lake petroglyphs, Scythian bronze artifacts, and a short history of the geology and mineral exploitation in the region.

Linda Connor

Connor's noted images include a photograph of a ceremonial cloth carefully wrapped around a tree trunk in Bali, petroglyphs hidden in the cliff dwellings of Arizona, star trails in Mexico, and votive candles meticulously arranged for ceremonial rites at Chartres.

Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art in the British Isles

This idea was first applied to the petroglyphs on the Neolithic monuments of the British Isles by David Lewis-Williams and T. Dowson.

Offerdal

Petroglyphs in Gärde in the north of Offerdal were made approximately 7 000 years ago.

Painted Rock Petroglyph Site

Found here and in nearby areas of the Gila River are petroglyphs of Archaic origin.

Petroform

Like the petroglyphs, many petroforms have complex and lengthy teachings that have been passed down orally by the Ojibway, other First Nations, and the Midewiwin.

Potrerillos

Boca de Potrerillos, a pre-Columbian archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León, known for its petroglyphs

Tadrart

Tadrart Acacus, a mountain chain in Libya designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985 for its ancient petroglyphs

Vallée des merveilles

Henry de Lumley has theorized the petroglyphs are the work of a Mediterranean Bronze Age people who worshipped the bull and for whom Mount Bégo was a sacred site.

Beginning in 1967, an extensive study of the petroglyphs was begun by French archaeologist Henry de Lumley.


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