The Kanozero Petroglyphs are a set of rock drawings discovered in 1997 on an island in Lake Kanozero in the southwestern part of the

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in Murmansk Oblast,

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. The

petroglyphs A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...

have been dated to the 2nd and 3rd millennium BC. There are currently about 1300 different images discovered in 18 groups at the site. Their meaning is not yet deciphered.

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Past Horizons: Remarkable Russian Petroglyphs

Protecting the Kanozero Petroglyphs

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