Ancient Rock Art

Cave paintings and carvings depicting human figures and animals, illustrating early artistic expressions from indigenous cultures.

Chad, Terkei West, Ennedi, Sahara. An ancient Bichrome rock art panel of women with elaborate hairstyles and horses.

Bushmen rock painting of human figures and antelopes, Brandberg archaeological site, Namibia, southern Africa

Emu 2. Date/Period: 1653 - 1900. Painting. Author: UNKNOWN.

Stone Age rock carving of an ox in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Gobustan with about 6, 000 rock carvings up to 40, 000 years, near the district town of Gobustan on the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Middle East, Asia

San Borjitas cave paintings, oldest cave paintings in western hemisphere, circa 7500 years old, Cueva San Borjitas, Sierra de Guadalupe Mountains, near Mulege, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Central America

Ancient rock paintings at the Pre-Aksumite settlement of Qohaito Koloe, Eritrea, Africa Copyright: MichaelxRunkel 1184-12074

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South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town. The Elands Bay Cave rock paintings cannot be dated directly but they are in a similar style to others that have been dated to between 200 and 6000 years ago elsewhere in the Western and Southern Cape.

San, Bushman rock art in Bamboo Hollow, Giants Castle, uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

San Rock Art

Chad, Terkei West, Ennedi, Sahara. An ancient Bichrome rock art panel of women with elaborate hairstyles and horses.

NM, New Mexico, Chaco Culture National Historic Park, Chaco Canyon, home of Ancestral Pueblo people between AD 850 - 1250, Petroglyph carved into the Sandstone

Petroglyphs on a rock wall.

Fessal drawings on the Agathi Beach on Rhodes Festliches at Agathi Beach on Rhodes

Hand and bird stencils. Date/Period: -7000. Painting. Author: UNKNOWN.

Rock art carved into the cliff face at Wadi Rum, Jordan

Petroglyph at Twyfelfontain, Namibia.

Painted person, neolithic rock art at Tin Meskis, Adrar N'Ahnet, Algeria, Sahara, North Africa, Africa

Pre historic rock paintings at Porivarai in Karikkiyoor, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Rock painting by San bushmen in Drakensberg Royal Natal NP, South Africa.

Egipto. Tumba 154 Tati.

Saudi Arabia, Najran, Bir Hima. One of the country's most important rock art sites is remote Bir Hima where hundreds of petroglyphs have been incised in cliffs and overhangs.

Lion Plate with Lion Man ancient rock etchings, Twyfelfontein UNESCO World Heritage Site, Damaraland, Namibia, Africa.

The Wolfe Ranch Petroglyph panel is a signposted Ute Indian rock art site, probably depict a hunting scene, in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, United States.

The WHITMORE PICTOGRAPHS are well preserved and a mile hike from the river at mile 187 - GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, ARIZONA

Rock art paintings of Laas Geel, near Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somalia, Africa

San or Bushman rock art near Clarens. Free State. South Africa

Saudi Arabia, Hail Province, Jubbah. Ancient petroglyphs at the Jubbah rock art site at Ob Sinman Mountain.

Prehistoric Saharan petroglyph rock art carvings of cattle with a man riding on its back from a site 20km east of Taouz, South Eastern Morocco

North America, Canada, Ontario, Lake Superior Provincial Park, Agawa Rock Pictographs of Horse and Rider and Four Spheres

Rock painting in the cave of Ekain in Cestona Spain

Rock painting, Ennedi region, Chad

Rock art painting at Pedra Furada, Serra da Capivara National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Piaui, Brazil, South America

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Full frame shot of rock paintings, Monticello, San Juan Country, Utah, USA

Rock paintings made by San Bushmen at Bushman's Kloof in Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Hopi petroglyph of Hey Hey'A, the head of a water serpent, who appears before spring corn planting. Located on a rock face wall near the town of Old Oriabi, Arizona

Australia, NT, Kakadu NP. Ancient aborigine cave art

Dancer. From a wall painting. South Anatolian Early Neolithic Culture, c. 6000 BC. From the temple in Level III of Catal Huyuk, Turkey. The male figure, a monochromatic silhouette, wears a cap of leopard skin and around his hips a leopard pelt

Rock art painting at Pedra Furada, Unesco site Serra da Capivara National Park, Piaui, Brazil, South America

Ancient human figures in red. Date/Period: -3998 - -1998. Painting. Author: UNKNOWN.

USA, Colorado-Utah border, Dinosaur National Monument, Petroglyphs estimated at 1000 years old were left by people of the Fremont Culture. (Large format sizes available)

close-up of cave painting

The rock paintings at Nyero in southeast Uganda are among the most interesting in East Africa. A large shelter wall displays concentric circles and what have been described as 'people sitting in canoes'. Though damaged by rain seepage, the bold red outlines are clearly visible; however, the chalky white pigment that once filled in these outlines has all but disappeared.

Tumba 103 Dagui.

Bison cave painting from the Altamira Cave. Magdalenian period. 15000- 12000 BC. SPAIN.

Wandjina art form of Kaiara, a mouthless spirit in the cloud, quartzite sandstone, Bigge Island, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, Pacific

Ancient petroglyphs seen at Parowan Gap.

Death Valley Scenic Byway - Petroglyphs at Klare Spring. Ancient petroglyphs on the walls of Klare Spring in Death Valley's Titus Canyon are still well preserved for visitors to see. Location: California (36.823° N 117.170° W)

Rock carvings, Unesco site Bir Hima Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions, Najran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Historic painting of running or dancing people, neolithic rock art of Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, Unesco World Heritage Site, Wilaya Illizi, Algeria, Sahara, North Africa, Africa

Rock art on Aruba, Lesser Antilles, Dutch Antilles, Caribbean. 2001.

Rock art painting at Pedra Furada, Serra da Capivara National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Piaui, Brazil, South America

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Stone Age rock carving of a man in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Gobustan with about 6, 000 rock carvings up to 40, 000 years, near the district town of Gobustan on the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Middle East, Asia

Newspaper Rock, a petroglyph panel of predominantly Ute images, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah

Detail of Petroglyphs From Newspaper Rock

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Rock art painting at Pedra Furada, Unesco site Serra da Capivara National Park, Piaui, Brazil, South America

Camel engraving, neolithic rock art of the Tadrart, Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, Unesco World Heritage Site, Algeria, Sahara, North Africa, Africa

Zimbabwe, Bulaweyo. Amalinda rock formations, ancient rock art

Petroglyph, National-Culture-Museum, Pretoria, South Africa, Africa

San Rock Art

San (Bushmen) rock paintings, Cedarburg, Western Cape

Petroglyphs on a rock, Hawaii, USA

Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, USA. Petroglyphs at Newspaper Rock.

Rock drawing of a deity, Talampaya National Park, La Rioja Province, Argentina, South America

Petroglyph at Twyfelfontain, Namibia.

Cave Painting Prehistoric Art Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria

Prehistoric rock carving, Combarelles, France.

Aboriginal stencil paintings and freehand drawings from the tribe of the Karingbal and Bidjara People, Carnarvon Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

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Tumba 103 Dagui.

Ancient rock paintings at the Pre-Aksumite settlement of Qohaito, Eritrea, Africa

Detail of the Aboriginal rock art at the Art Gallery in Carnarvon Gorge, Carnarvon National Park, Queensland, Australia. showing stenciled hand prints

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N.A., Mexico, Baja, Guadelupe Mountains. Pictographs

Sweden - Vastra Gotaland County - North of Bohuslan. Rock carvings in Tanum or Tanumshede (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1994), Scandinavian Bronze Age.

Rock engraving of a crying cow, neolithic rock art near Djanet, Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, Unesco World Heritage Site, Wilaya Illizi, Algeria, Sahara, North Africa, Africa

Rock art paintings of Laas Geel, near Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somalia, Africa Copyright: MichaelxRunkel 1184-11428

Anasazi Shaman Figure, Eye of the Sun Petroglyph Wall, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Navajo Nation Reservation, Utah/Arizona Border

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Niger, Agadez, Iouelene. A fine panel of rock engravings by hunter-gatherers several thousand years old.

Aboriginal Rock Art, Australia

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Petroglyphs on Newspaper Rock, a boulder in Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Unesco world heritage site Rock Engravings National Park of Naquane, Valcamonica, Italy, Europe

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Rock Engravings, National Park of Naquane, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Valcamonica, Italy, Europe

Rock engraving on Neolithic passage grave, Knowth,Unesco world heritage sight, prehstoric Bru na Boinne, Ireland, Europe

Pictographs On Newspaper Rock Canyonlands National Park Utah Usa

Spirit figure on ceiling. Date/Period: 1500 - 1900. Painting. Author: UNKNOWN.

Cave painting on a rock, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona-Utah, USA

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Painted warriors or hunters, neolithic rock art at Tin Meskis, Adrar n'Ahnet, Algeria, Sahara, North Africa, Africa

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Ancestral Pueblo petroglyph panel in the backcountry of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. MB

Ancient rock etchings, Twyfelfontein UNESCO World Heritage Site, Damaraland, Namibia, Africa.

opus signinum Pflaster opus signinum pavement, 1st century BC, Contrebia Leucade, Aguilar del Rio Alhama, Museum of Romanization, Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain, Europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 22946299

Aboriginal rock art depicting jellyfish and moth. Bathurst Head, Queensland, Australia.

sculpture on rock near tungabhadra river hampi, karnataka, India, Asia Copyright: xSxRao/DinodiaxPhotox

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