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Artwork Types > Rock art
Paintings or carvings worked on living rock, including pictographs and petroglyphs.
c. 42,000 B.C.E.
c. 40,000 B.C.E.—1500 C.E.
late 2nd–early 1st millennium B.C.E.
c. 600–1100
up to 20,000 years old
c. 20th century B.C.E.–19th century C.E.
c. 100 B.C.E.–1300 C.E.
c. 6,000 B.C.E.–3,500 B.C.E.
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