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Rock

Naturally formed aggregate of one or more minerals. For processed or dressed rock use "stone." Use this for rock-cut architecture, caves, and sculptures made of living rock.

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Basics to get you started

The Case for Land Art

Chinese Buddhist cave shrines

Origins of rock art in Africa

Works of Art

Sunyaragi, a Javanese pleasure garden

18th century

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

The Regolini-Galassi tomb and the Parade Fibula

c. 675–650 B.C.E.

Ellora caves

c. 600–1100

Carvings and paintings, Kakadu

up to 20,000 years old

Giant Buddha of Leshan

713–803

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