Rock art is the broad category of images that use living rock as their support or material. The images are most often carved or pecked into the stone or painted on it, and the category is sometimes extended to pictorial arrangements of rock itself. The term is used most often for works made by ancient peoples. The Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus advises describing related visual works with more specific terms, namely petroglyphs, pictographs, geoglyphs or petroforms, and it records rupestrian art as a variant name. In this atlas the form gathers carved, pecked and painted works on rock faces, boulders and cave walls.
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Source Angono-Binangonan Petroglyphs (Wikipedia)
Source Bangudae Petroglyphs (Wikipedia)
Source Bedolina Map (Wikipedia)
Source Cochno Stone (Wikipedia)
Source Inga Stone (Wikipedia)
Source Rock carvings at Alta (Wikipedia)
Source Ughtasar Petroglyphs (Wikipedia)
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Bangudae Petroglyphs (Wikipedia)
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The Bangudae (Daegok-ri) Petroglyphs (Korean: 반구대 암각화) are pre-historic engravings on flat vertical rock faces on the riverside of the Daegokcheon (Bangucheon) stream, a branch of the Taehwa River, which runs eastward and joins the East Sea at Ulsan.
Ughtasar Petroglyphs (Wikipedia)
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The Ukhtasar Petroglyphs (Armenian: Ուխտասարի ժայռապատկերներ) are rock-carvings found on Mount Ukhtasar near the town of Sisian in Armenia's southern province of Syunik.
Angono-Binangonan Petroglyphs (Wikipedia)
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The Angono-Binangonan Petroglyphs are petroglyphs carved into a rock wall between the boundaries of Angono and Binangonan in the province of Rizal, Philippines.
Cochno Stone (Wikipedia)
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The Bronze Age rock art is found on a stone measuring 42 by 26 feet (12.8 by 7.9 metres), and was documented in 1887 by the Rev.
Rock carvings at Alta (Wikipedia)
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The Rock art of Alta (Helleristningene i Alta) are located in and around Alta Municipality in Finnmark county in northern Norway.
Inga Stone (Wikipedia)
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Several figures are carved in low relief in this set, suggesting the representation of animals, fruits, and astronomical features like the constellation Orion and the Milky Way.
Bedolina Map (Wikipedia)
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The Bedolina Map (formally Rock 1 of Bedolina) is a famous engraved prehistoric rock which is part of the Camonica Valley (Alps, Italian side, Lombardy region) petroglyph complex.
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