Twyfelfontein is a UNESCO world heritage site in Namibia famous for its rock carvings. One of the best-known carvings is the lion-man... a shaman in a lion form.

#TravelCat #Namibia #Africa #Twyfelfontein #TravelPhotography #RockCarvings

More than 100 prehistoric #RockCarvings have been discovered inside Cova de la Vila in La Febró (#Tarragona)
#Chalcolithic-#BronzeAge in northeastern #Spain
...described as “exceptional, both for their singularity and for their excellent state of conservation” by a team from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (#IPHES).
#archeology #prehistory
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-03-17/over-100-prehistoric-engravings-found-in-a-cave-in-northeastern-spain.html

The other day I was up in a favourite local spot, Goats Crag. These carvings are a little way off the main path and hard to find unless you know where they are. Believed to represent goats, although whether that's because of the name or the name was given because of the carvings, I'm not sure. They could really be any kind of quadruped, but I'm happy to accept the folklore!

Their age is unknown, and they probably aren't truly ancient (I've heard guesses from Iron Age to Roman to Medieval; if they were really prehistoric, they'd be incredibly rare in Britain), but early Bronze Age burials have been found close by, and one of the largest occurrences of cup and ring marks is also not far away, as well as an Iron Age fort.

#Northumberland #folklore #history #prehistory #archaeology #RockCarvings @folklore

Archaeologists uncover 2,700-yr-old rock carvings from when Nineveh was the capital of ancient Assyrian empire.
#archaeology #Nineveh #Assyrianempire #rockcarvings
Source : Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/archaeologists-uncover-2700-yr-old-rock-carvings-from-when-nineveh-was-the-capital-of-ancient-assyrian-empire/articleshow/96452502.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

To add context for anyone interested in the layout of the #Prehistoric site, here is some lidar data, which makes it much clearer than Google Maps can, as it reveals what's hidden under the tree cover. I'd scrambled through those ditches a hundred times and never realised how they formed a picture with the landscape until I saw maps showing this.

My guess would be that they post-date the #CupAndRingMarks (second pic) outside the embankments, but I'm no expert.

#Prehistory #Archaeology #RockCarvings #RingDitches #Northumberland

#RockCarvings in #Greenland.