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Indigenous rock art site sacred sites
Explore Indigenous rock art site sacred sites across countries, regions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes.
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Ha Baroana
Ha Matela, Maseru District, Lesotho
On a sandstone overhang above the Liphiring River, east of Maseru, Ha Baroana holds polychrome paintings made by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers....
Ku-ring-gai Chase Aboriginal Heritage Walk
Sydney / Ku-ring-gai Chase, New South Wales, Sydney / Ku-ring-gai Chase, New South Wales, Australia
The Aboriginal Heritage Walk in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park threads past rock engravings, hand stencils, and middens left by the Garigal and Darramurragal peoples...
Burrungkuy (Nourlangie)
Jabiru / Burrungkuy region, Northern Territory, Jabiru / Burrungkuy region, Northern Territory, Australia
Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) rises from the Kakadu floodplain as a rock art complex occupied for more than 6,000 years, its Anbangbang gallery holding an x-ray-style painting...
Carnarvon Gorge Art Gallery
Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland, Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland, Australia
Deep in a sandstone gorge in central Queensland, a sheltered rock wall carries roughly 2,000 stencils, engravings and paintings built up over thousands of years....
Nanguluwurr Art Site
Jabiru / Burrungkuy region, Northern Territory, Jabiru / Burrungkuy region, Northern Territory, Australia
Nanguluwurr sits in a quiet rock shelter on the northern flank of Burrungkuy, along a route Bininj/Mungguy people have walked for millennia....
Murujuga Cultural Landscape
Dampier / Karratha, Western Australia, Dampier / Karratha, Western Australia, Australia
Murujuga's red rock holds an estimated one to two million petroglyphs made over 40,000 to 50,000 years by the ancestors of the Ngarluma, Yaburara, Mardudhunera,...
Napwerte / Ewaninga Rock Carvings Conservation Reserve
Hale / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Hale / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Australia
South of Alice Springs, a shallow claypan is bordered by low sandstone outcrops bearing one of the densest concentrations of rock engravings in the Northern Territory....
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
Milk River, Alberta, Canada
In southern Alberta, the Milk River has carved a valley of sandstone cliffs and hoodoos that the Blackfoot call matapiiksi — the people....
Ubirr
Jabiru / East Alligator region, Northern Territory, Jabiru / East Alligator region, Northern Territory, Australia
Ubirr rises above Kakadu's Nadab floodplain, its galleries layered with rock art spanning tens of thousands of years and its escarpment tied to the Dreaming journey of...
Tehueto Petroglyphs and Me’ae
Atuona / Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, Atuona / Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Tehueto holds tiki heads, a stone ceremonial platform, and petroglyphs of raised-arm human figures carved into a large basalt block, reached by a river-valley hike inland...
Quinkan Split Rock Art Site
Laura, Queensland, Laura, Queensland, Australia
Split Rock rises above the Peninsula Development Road south of Laura, its sandstone overhangs holding painted and engraved figures generations old....
Red Hands Cave
Glenbrook / Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Glenbrook / Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
A sandstone shelter in the Blue Mountains carries dozens of ochre hand stencils, left by Darug and Gundungurra people across centuries and dated to roughly 500 to 1,600...
Wanshan Rock Carvings
Maolin, Kaohsiung City, Maolin, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
The Wanshan Rock Carvings are Taiwan's sole confirmed body of prehistoric rock art, four remote sites of undeciphered spirals, faces, and snake figures carved into stone...
N'Dhala Gorge Nature Park
Ross River / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Ross River / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Australia
N'Dhala Gorge cuts through red sandstone 90km east of Alice Springs, its walls carrying roughly 6,000 engravings made by Eastern Arrernte ancestors across two broad phases...
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