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Rock Art of Alta

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Rank: 1001 UNESCO
Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: Norway
Best of: Rock Art
Description:
This group of petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arctic Circle, bears the traces of a settlement dating from c. 4200 to 500 B.C. The thousands of paintings and engravings add to our understanding of the environment and human activities on the fringes of the Far North in prehistoric times. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Rock Art of Alta", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.