rock artArticle Free Pass rock art, ancient or prehistoric
drawing, painting, or similar work on or of stone. Rock art
includes pictographs (drawings or paintings), petroglyphs
(carvings or inscriptions), engravings (incised motifs),
petroforms (rocks laid out in patterns), and geoglyphs (ground
drawings). The ancient animals, tools, and human activities
depicted often help shed light on daily life in the distant
past, though the images are frequently symbolic. Sometimes a
single site may have art that dates from several centuries. Rock
art may have played a role in prehistoric religion, possibly in
connection with ancient myths or the activities of shamans.
Important sites occur in southern Africa, Europe, North America,
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