Tagged: Petroglyphs

– Surrounded by beautiful large, deep lakes such as Lake Hornavan, Lake Uddjaur and Lake Tjeggelvas, the Arjeplog’s mountain archipelago offers visitors astonishing scenery and archaeologists a wealth of information about our distant past. About 20 unique between 4,000-6,000-year-old petroglyphs linked to an ancient ritual...

Scandinavia has the largest concentration of Bronze Age rock art in Europe. Research has showed that there are approximately thirty thousand registered sites depicting figurative art (human and animal figures are frequent subjects), abstract and other images such as cup marks and cupules. At Tanum,...

– While documenting already existing petroglyphs on the Himmelstalundsfältet outside the town of Norrköping, Sweden, scientists came across new previously unknown ancient rock carvings. Some of the new petroglyphs have symbolic and religious meaning. The Sun symbol played an important role to Bronze Age people...