Leang Tedongnge

A limestone cave in a secluded karst gorge. In this cave has been found the oldest known painting made by man. This painting is at least 45 500 years old and shows a group of three wild pigs, most likely Sus celebensis.

Lyman Lake Petroglyphs

Petroglyph sites with very diverse cliff drawings from different periods – from 6000 BC to 1400 AD. Some specialists consider that part of the drawings is associated with shamanism.

Chumash Painted Cave

Chumash Painted Cave, California

Small sandstone cave with red, white and black paintings that depict the cosmology of Chumash people. Age is unknown, between 200 and 1000 years.

Madjedbebe rock shelter

The shelter contains finds of the oldest known humans in Australia, 65,000 years old. Site contains the world’s oldest ground-edge axes and is adorned with some 1000 Aboriginal paintings.

Wary Bay rock art

Wandjina art at Wary Bay

Impressive indigenous rock art with first contact art and Wandjina figures.

Tunnel Creek

Tunnel Creek, Western Australia

Approximately 750 m long cave – a tunnel with a stream running through it. This is a very old cave system, approximately 20 million years old. Amazing speleothems, aboriginal drawings. Freshwater crocodiles have been seen in the cave.

Abracurrie Cave

Possibly the largest single cave chamber in the southern hemisphere, with a volume of some 150 thousand cubic meters. Contains Aboriginal stencils – the deepest native cave art in Australia.

Walga Rock art

Walga Rock, Australia

Cave with extensive cliff art galleries. Here is also a drawing of an European sailing ship (contact art), most likely from the late 19th century. Such contact art is met in several locations of Australia. Other drawings are much older.

Ubirr (Obiri)

Ubirr in Northern Australia, turtle in X-ray style

Some of the best galleries of Aboriginal X-ray style drawings, some are up to 40,000 years old. Three galleries are accessible to visitors.