ROCK ART IN THE WORLD 

  INTRODUCTION

  Rock art is widespread in every continent. Its globosity extent andhistorical depth become a cosmopolitan pop study.

    Recent discoveries show that the early man chose to depict and engrave on rock surfaces. Although exploration has by no means been exhaustive, rock art is reported from thousands of sites. Scientific evidence such as Carbon-14 dating, paleo-climatic data and archaeological analysis indicates that the oldest rock art known today was executed ca. 40,000 years ago.

   150 pictures of the exhibition were only a small fraction of the world's heritage of rock art. But they reflect this art reveals the human capacities of abstraction, synthesis and idealization; it describes economic and social activities, ideas, beliefs and practices, and provides unique insight into the intellectual life and cultural patterns of man.

   Rock art contains the most ancient testimony of human imaginative and artistic creativity, long before the invention of writing, and constitutes one of the most significant aspects of the common heritage of humanity.        

   There were offered by Prof. Chen Zhao Fu, Central University of Nationalities, Beijing.

ASIA

    Asia, the largest continent in the World, for the purpose of the rock art world inventory, Asia has been divided some regions of unequal size. In the Near East, rock art is widespread in the Arabian Peninsula, Sinai (Egypt), the Negev desert (Israel), Jordan and Anatolia (Turkey).

   The most complete sequence found so far in central Arabia. Rock art was discovered in central Asia, Siberia and the Far East. The largest site known so far in India is Bhimbetka. As far as rock art is concerned, China is one of the most important country in the world there rock art is widespread.

China

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