Rock Art of Alta

World Heritage

Norway

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Located in Alta Fjord near the Arctic Circle, this group of rock paintings preserves traces of a settlement dating from around 4200 to 500 BC. Thousands of paintings and engravings have deepened our understanding of the environment and human activities at the edge of the Far North in prehistoric times.

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The World Heritage Site of the Alta rock carvings. Museum building to the left, the carvings are alo...

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A carving with visible fences, showing large hunting drives

Detail from the rock carvings at Alta

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A man using some sort of tool on an elk. This scene has alternatively been interpreted as a hunter f...

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A herd of elks, with two pregnant females in the foreground

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start time	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
area	53.59
country	Josef Kirpal
image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alta-Carvings-2012-07-17-12-15-018.jpg
genre	cave painting
object has role	anonymous
executive body	Rock art of Alta
IPA transcription	1816067
office held by head of the organization	http://g.co/kg/m/05qh50
Commons category	Rock art of Alta
has part	Gustavo A. Madero
has part	Storsteinen
coordinate location	Point(23.187777777 69.946944444)