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Introduction to Rock Paintings of India

Rock paintings of India (rock paintings of India), cave paintings of India from prehistoric to historic times.In 1880, rock paintings belonging to the Late Paleolithic period were first discovered in Mirzapur in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India. Since then, petroglyphs have been explored uninterruptedly throughout India. Since 1970, India again appeared to explore the rock art boom, especially around 1973 in Madhya Pradesh, India, Pimbedkar found one of the world's largest prehistoric rock art group, increasingly attracted the attention of the international archaeological and art history circles.