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Rock Art of Alta

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Norway
Date of Inscription: 1985
Criteria: (iii)
Alta municipality, county of Finnmark
N69 57 E23 11
Ref: 352

Brief Description

This group of petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arctic Circle, bears the traces of a settlement dating from c. 4200 to 500 B.C. The thousands of paintings and engravings add to our understanding of the environment and human activities on the fringes of the Far North in prehistoric times.

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