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	Encyclopedia: Rock carvings at Alta
		The period of almost 5000 years over which carvings were created at the site saw many cultural changes, including the adoption of metal tools, advances in boat building and fishing techniques and the development of the cultural identity of the Sami people; therefore, the carvings show a wide variety of mundane imagery and religious symbolism.
		Rock carvings especially from the earliest period show great similarity with carvings from northwestern Russia, indicating contact between and maybe parallel development of cultures over a wide area of Europe's extreme North.
		This, along with the fact that similar carvings of large boats have been found in coastal regions in southern Norway, seems to indicate that a considerable mastery of boatsmanship and shipbuilding has been reached in northern Norway as early as 2000 BC and the carvers were able to cover great distances on the ocean.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rock-carvings-at-Alta (4077 words)

	Bhimbetka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		‘Rock Shelters of Bhimbetaka’ lie 45 km south of Bhopal, and are located at the southern edge of the Vindhyachal hills.
		Wakankar was traveling by train to Bhopal, he saw some rock formations of similar nature which he has seen in Spain and France.
		Rock shelters and caves of Bhimbetka have several interesting paintings and depict in a very vivid way life of the people living in those caves and the natural environment around them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhimbetka (476 words)

	Alta Rock Carvings
		The Alta Rock Carvings are an impressive collection of stone-age art dating from 6000 to 2500 years ago.
		All of the carvings were made by using a rock tool of quartzite and a hammer of either bone or rock.
		It is expected that the area was used for ceremonial purposes as the few traces of houses suggest there was little permanent or semi-permanent settlement here.The large number of rock carvings at the head of the Altafjord indicate that parts of this area held such a role for around 4000 years.
	www.norseaodyssey.com /Our_Travels/Europe/Norway/Finnmark/Alta_Rock_Carvings/alta_rock_carvings.htm (487 words)

	alta
		Rock carvings are found all over the world, but the ones in Alta are not only very old and very numerous carvings, they also display the development in rock carvings through thousands of years from c.
		Often the refugees felt badly treated by their countrymen where they were sent in exile (the general conditions were such that people were not prepared to share), and most of them returned as soon as possible even if they had to live in tents in the beginning.
		We took a bus south out of Alta into Sami land and passed a dam that became world famous in the late 1970s when a vigil of national and international protesters blocked the passage of the machines that were necessary to build the dam.
	lakjer.dk /erik/rejser/alta.html (2344 words)

	Scandinavian Review: Carved in tone
		The Alta Fjord is a finger of the North Atlantic penetrating Norway's northernmost country, Finnmark, at the town of Alta. About twice the size of the state of Vermont, Finnmark is where Norway, an extremely thin country at its midsection, widens out again to stretch inland toward Finland and northwest to Russia.
		Alta's rock carvings date from about 4,200 B.C. to 500 B.C. The oldest, then, are from the middle Stone Age and the latter from the end of the Bronze Age.
		Alta's "rocks of ages" can rightly claim to be the largest field of petroglyphs in northern Europe created by hunters and fishermen.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3760/is_200307/ai_n9277073 (1073 words)

	Petroglyph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term 'petroglyph' should not be confused with pictograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face.
		Rock carving on Cheung Chau Island, Hong Kong.
		This 3000-year-old rock carving was reported by geologists in 1970.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petroglyph (946 words)

	Norwegian Rock Art
		The drawings were made over a long period of time and the most ancient were carved in the rock over 6200 years ago, while the younger ones are 2500 years old.
		Some carvings appear to show hunting scenes, and others are thought to represent musicians holding instruments like the "runebommen", the shamanic drum used in rituals by the Sami people of Norway, Finland, Sweden and Russia.
		When the first carvings were cut into the rock the sea level was between eight and twenty-six metres higher than today, and the climate much milder, more like modern southern Norway's.
	donsmaps.com /norge.html (1697 words)

	Travel Writing and Photography by Lee Foster
		About 3,000 carvings of reindeer, moose, bear, birds, hunters, men, women, children, boats, people dancing, musicians, fishing, and other subjects were chipped into the slate rock with a bone hammer and quartz chisel by Stone Age people.
		Alta must be seen on your own because it does not fit into the pattern of Bergen shore excursions.
		Between Alta and Nordkapp, forlorn, small birch trees barely survive in the slaty soil adjacent to the tundra.
	www.fostertravel.com /NORWAY.html (1807 words)

	Riksantikvaren » Norwegian World Heritage » The Rock Carvings in Alta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The rock carvings in Alta are the largest known collection of rock carvings in Northern Europe made by hunter-gatherers.
		Rock carvings have two meanings, for the first they represent a concrete situation, in the other they have a symbolic meaning and can signalise group identity, religious beliefs, rituals, shamanism, ideology or power.
		The large collection of rock carvings can indicate that there are additional large, ritually important areas at the head of the Alta fjord.
	www.riksantikvaren.no /english/Norwegian_World_Heritage/The_Rock_Carvings_in_Alta (360 words)

	Earth Change News on Earth Changes TV on the Web
		The manager of the Alta Museum, responsible for the care of the carvings, is Hans-Christian Soeborg, an archaeologist.
		While the significance of many of the individual carvings seems clear, archaeologists are still uncertain of the meaning of some of the groups, and of the site as a whole.
		The carvings were probably meant partly to bring good luck to the hunters and to give them power over their prey.
	www.earthchangestv.com /breaking/September2000/0904carvings.htm (561 words)

	worldsurface.com - sustainable tourism for backpackers and independent travellers
		Rock carvings have been found, usually near hunting and fishing grounds.
		The carvings at Alta in Finnmark, the largest in Scandinavia, were made at sea level continuously from 6200 to 2500 BC and mark the progression of the land as it rose from the sea after the last ice age.
		The motifs of the rock carvings differ from those typical of the Stone Age.
	www.worldsurface.com /browse/static.asp?staticpageid=812 (667 words)

	Rock carvings in Central Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These rock carvings were probably made by people who used gathering, fishing and hunting as their subsistence.
		He suggests that the ships and horses seen in the carvings and on the bronze items were the sun's helpers - the horse pulling the sun across the sky during the day, and the boat bringing it back through the underworld during night-time.
		The hunter's rock carvings are often found in places with striking and highly visible natural features, such as below steep cliffs, by waterfalls etc. This was part of what led to the original hunting-magic-interpretation: supposedly the carvings were made in places where animals could easily be hunted.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Rock-carvings-in-Central-Norway.htm (1111 words)

	NORWEGIAN WORLD HERITAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This group of petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arctic Circle, bears the traces of a settlement dating from c.
		A rock carving is a figure which is carved, polished or chipped into a stone or bedrock outcrop.
		What make the rock carvings in Alta so unique is that they are so varied and include so many different figures.
	www.gonorway.no /go/unesco_alta.html (342 words)

	Encyclopedia: Petroglyph
		Newspaper Rock Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument is located in some 25 miles from Monticello in eastern Utah, western United States.
		Detail from the rock carvings at Alta The Rock carvings at Alta are an archaeological site near the town of Alta in the county of Finnmark in northern Norway.
		Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Petroglyph (3676 words)

	Alta Museum
		The rock carvings in Alta indicate that Alta was a religious meeting-place in the Late Stone Age (4200-1800 BC) and Early Metal Age (1800 BC-BC/AD).
		Various types of bear hunting scenes are rather common among the oldest rock carvings, telling us that the bear may have been viewed in a similar way 5-6000 years ago as in the pre-Christian Sámi religion.
		Alta was a centre for northern lights research in the 1800’s and beginning of the 1900’s.
	www.alta.museum.no /Publisering.asp?Id=36 (754 words)

	Rock Carvings, Alta Museum
		Altaveien 19, Alta. On the E6 in Hjemmeluft/Jiepmaluokta, approx.
		The rock carvings were made over a long period of time in the late Stone Age and early Bronze Age, from 6000 to 2500 years ago.
		The carvings have everyday motifs: animals such as bears, moose and reindeer, hunting situations and boats are the most common figures.
	www.olavsrosa.no /en/objektinfo.aspx?id=26934 (151 words)

	Petroglyph - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A Petroglyph is an image recorded on stone, usually by prehistoric peoples; the word comes from the Greek words petros meaning "stone" and glyph meaning "to carve".
		However, the terms "Pictograph" or Cave painting are used to describe images painted on stone rather than Petroglyph which, in the strictest sense, refers to carved or engraved images.
		The later carvings from the Nordic Bronze Age in Scandinavia seems to indicate some form of territory boundaries between tribes, except its religious meaning.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Rock_carving (327 words)

	State of Environment in Norway: Rock carvings of Alta
		The rock carvings at Alta contains a significant collection of carvings giving us insight into people's lives and their conception of the world over 6000 years ago.
		Since the first rock carvings were found by chance in 1973, 3000 rock carvings have been found at five different sites in the area.
		The rock carvings at Alta are automatically protected according to the Cultural Heritage Act.
	www.environment.no /templates/PageWithRightListing____2419.aspx (114 words)

	Age of Rituals Early round at Dal
		The river was the road to the settlements deeper in the land.
		Carving at the vicarage of Aur on Dal.
		At Dalbergsaa the big elks and the big boats associate to those early carvings of Alta, but may be as late as 3100 BC.
	www.catshaman.com /01dalbergs/01elkland.htm (2479 words)

	Alta Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alta was at least interesting once, and for decades was not Norwegian at all, but Finnish and Sámi, and host to an ancient Sámi fair.
		The carvings are located beside the E6 as you approach Alta from the southwest, some 2.5km before the Bossekop district, and form part of
		The carvings were executed, it's estimated, between 6000 and 2500 years ago, and are indisputably impressive: clear, stylish and touching in their simplicity, offering an insight into a prehistoric culture that was essentially settled and largely reliant on the hunting of land animals.
	www.airporthotelseurope.com /airports/alf/alta_information.html (353 words)

	rock climbing - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about rock climbing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rock climbing at Sennen Cove, near Land's End in Cornwall.
		Aid climbing is any form of ascent that entails the use of equipment.
		One of the most famous rock climbs in Britain is the Old Man of Hoy, off the Orkneys.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /rock+climbing (115 words)

	World Heritage (Norway - the official site in Serbia and Montenegro)
		The sites at Alta contain a significant collection of carvings, offering visitors insight into the lives of people and their conception of the world over 6000 years ago.
		The oldest drawings were carved in the rock over 6 200 years ago, while the youngest date back 2 500 years old.
		Its fine wooden carvings testify to the skill of the craftsmen who built it, and its interior is unusually richly decorated.
	www.norveska.org.yu /culture/heritage/world (496 words)

	Rock carvings at Alta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The rock carvings in Alta were placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 3 December This list comprises sites that are considered have particularly great national and international value.
		The rock carvings in Alta are between and 2000 years old.
		They probably elements in myths and stories about worlds inhabited by the people and the Through the wildlife depicted (reindeer elk bears dogs and/or wolves foxes hares geese ducks swans cormorants halibut salmon and whales) the carvings also provide information about environment and resources of this population.
	www.freeglossary.com /Rock_drawings (223 words)

	Prehistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Even the very far north of Scandinavia was eventually inhabited by pre-historic man, who left his mark in rock carvings and rock paintings much like early settlers 800 miles to the south.
		The petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord by the Norwegian Sea not far from Norway's North Cape (northernmost point on the European continent) are from a settlement that existed during the Stone Age: 4200-500 BC.
		The most common type of rock carving of the southern Bronze Age tradition is the simple cup-mark figure: a little depression in the rock surface, a few inches wide and less than an inch deep.
	www.homeatfirst.com /prehisto.htm (1431 words)

	altapics
		70 degrees north - Alta is about 100 miles from the North Cape) provide the perfect setting for a feeling of being on top of the world, but most of all the midnight sun itself endows the scenery with enchantment.
		Preparing for lunch among the rock carvings (on stone on the left)
		In the early 1600s the Danish king Christian IV made a voyage to the easternmost settlement of Vardø east of Alta just to make his presence known to the Russians who were attempting an expansion into Denmark-Norway.
	lakjer.dk /erik/rejser/alta/altapics.html (2749 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Europe
		Frescoes from the Boyana Church: Desislava The church of Boyana is a medieval Bulgarian church situated on the outskirts of Sofia.
		The Madara Rider The Madara Rider is a large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria.
		The Jelling stones are massive carved runic gravestones from the 10th century, found at Jelling in Denmark.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-World-Heritage-Sites-in-Europe (7406 words)

	altapics
		Perhaps the most puzzling feature was the many hairdressers for a town this size; it seemed as if having a hairdo or haircut very often is a favorite pastime.
		For Alta turns out to be one of the oldest settlements in the North.
		Upon our return we learned that new discoveries of rock carvings were made at Billefjord, also in the Finnmark: a field of more than 100 meters displaying people and reindeer.
	www.lakjer.dk /erik/rejser/alta/altapics.html (2749 words)

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