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The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site of the Paleolithic. They are the earliest traces of human life on the Indian Subcontinent, and the beginning of the Indian Stone Age. Here are many beautiful drawn drawings by the Stone Age people. There you can see some drawings of people who are hunting.

Images for kids

  • Path way Bhembetika (2)

    Archaeological Survey of India monument number N-MP-225

  • Information Palette Bhimbetka (3)

    Bhimbetka location

  • 1 of the rock shelter caves at Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh

    One of about 750 rock shelter caves at Bhimbetka.

  • Rock Shelter 15, Bhimbetka 02

    The only painting in the caves showing a man being attacked by a horned bovine.

  • Dancing painting at Bhimbetka

    Mesolithic dancers at Bhimbetka

  • Bhimbetka Natraj painting

    An eroded painting in the caves showing a man dancing and holding a trident-like staff

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Abrigos rupestres de Bhimbetka para niños

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