The San Francisco de Miculla petroglyphs, commonly known as the Miculla petroglyphs, are

petroglyph 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 ...

s located from

Tacna Tacna was known for its mining industry; it had significant deposits of sodium nitrate and other resources. Its economic prosperity attracted a wave of immigrants from Italy. Today, their Italian Peruvian descendants live in the city and many of t ...

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. They are carved in low relief in the rocks, and depict people fighting, dancing and hunting animals. They are believed by many to be around 1500 years old, although various people date them from as wide a time period as 500 AD to 1445 AD.

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Archaeological sites in Peru Petroglyphs Archaeological sites in Tacna Region {{Peru-geo-stub