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Rock art

Paintings or carvings worked on living rock.

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Origins of rock art in Africa

Chinese Buddhist cave shrines

Works of Art

Earliest hunting scene in Sulawesi, Indonesia

c. 42,000 B.C.E.

Bhimbetka cave paintings

c. 4000 B.C.E.—1500 C.E.

Deccan Megaliths

late 2nd–early 1st millennium B.C.E.

The multireligious caves at Ellora

c. 600–1100

Ellora caves

c. 600–1100

Carvings and paintings, Kakadu

up to 20,000 years old

uKhahlamba Drakensberg rock paintings (San)

c. 20th century B.C.E.–19th century C.E.

Rock paintings of Sierra de San Francisco

c. 100 B.C.E.–1300 C.E.

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