Bangudae Petroglyphs
Roughly 300 Neolithic-to-Bronze-Age rock engravings on a riverside cliff in Ulsan, South Korea, depicting whales, land animals, hunting scenes and human figures - the earliest known visual record of whaling anywhere in the world.
Dated events and their evidence
- 5,000 BCE mainstream
earliest carvings (Neolithic phase begins) source - 850 CE mainstream
latest carvings (site falls out of use, 9th century AD) source
Where
35.6039° N, 129.1778° E
Sources
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