swap_horiz Zhoukoudian Alternatives

1

Lascaux Cave

The Lascaux Cave is an archaeological site located in southwestern France. It contains remarkably preserved Paleolithic...

France Paleolithic Paintings Cave Art

9.3 Excellent

2

Chauvet Cave

Located in the Ardèche gorge of southern France, Chauvet Cave is a Paleolithic site discovered in 1994 by Jean-Marie Cha...

France Prehistoric Paleolithic Cave Art

9.2 Excellent

3

Altamira

The Cave of Altamira is an archaeological site located near Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. Discovered in 1879 b...

Spain Prehistoric Paleolithic Cantabria

9.2 Excellent

4

Mogao Caves (Dunhuang)

The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes, are a network of 492 Buddhist cave temples located near Dun...

China Painting Buddhist Silk Road

9.2 Excellent

5

Mogao Caves

The Mogao Caves represent a significant archaeological site in northwestern China. Constructed between the 4th and 14th...

China Buddhist Silk Road Cave Art

9.1 Excellent

6

Anyang (Yin Ruins)

The Yin Ruins at Anyang represent the remains of the last capital city of the Shang Dynasty, located in Henan Province,...

China Capital Bronze Age Shang

9.0 Excellent

7

Atapuerca

The Sierra de Atapuerca is an archaeological and paleontological complex located in the province of Burgos, Spain. Excav...

Spain Prehistoric Paleolithic Hominid

8.9 Great

8

Klasies River Caves

Klasies River Caves are a group of coastal archaeological sites in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Excavations have do...

South Africa Paleolithic Cave Hominin

8.9 Great

9

Longmen Grottoes

The Longmen Grottoes are a significant archaeological site in Henan Province, China. Carved primarily between the 5th an...

China Buddhist Cave Art Northern Wei

8.8 Great

10

Yungang Grottoes

The Yungang Grottoes are a complex of ancient Buddhist temple caves excavated into the sandstone cliffs of Wuzhou Mounta...

China 5TH Century Buddhist Cave Art

8.6 Great

11

Sanxingdui

Sanxingdui is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Sichuan, China, first excavated in 1986. It revealed a previously unkn...

China Ritual Bronze Age Sichuan

8.5 Great

12

Font-de-Gaume

A Paleolithic decorated cave near Les Eyzies in the Dordogne region of France, containing over 200 polychrome paintings...

France Painting Prehistoric Paleolithic

8.4 Great

13

Mawangdui

Mawangdui is an archaeological site located in Changsha, Hunan Province, China, consisting of three tombs from the Weste...

China Tombs 2ND Century Bce Han Dynasty

8.2 Great

14

Clovis (Blackwater Draw)

Blackwater Draw is a significant archaeological site located near Clovis, New Mexico, that serves as the type-site for t...

USA Paleolithic New Mexico Paleo Indian

8.2 Great

15

Yin Ruins (Anyang)

The Yin Ruins, located in Anyang in China's Henan Province, represent the archaeological remains of Yin, the final capit...

China Capital Bronze Age Shang Dynasty

8.0 Great

16

Cro-Magnon Rock Shelter

The Cro-Magnon Rock Shelter is an archaeological and paleontological site located in Les Eyzies, within the Dordogne reg...

France Prehistoric Paleolithic Dordogne

7.9 Good

17

Liangzhu

Liangzhu is a late Neolithic archaeological site near Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province, China, associated with a culture th...

China Urban Neolithic Jade

7.5 Good

18

Jiahu

Jiahu was a Neolithic settlement in the Yellow River basin of Henan Province, central China, occupied from about 7000 to...

China Neolithic 7000BCE Flutes

7.3 Good

19

Erlitou

Erlitou is a Bronze Age archaeological site near Yanshi in Henan Province, China, occupied approximately between 1900 an...

China Bronze Age Palatial 2000BCE

7.2 Good

20

Pikimachay Cave

Pikimachay is a cave and archaeological site near Ayacucho in the central highlands of Peru. Excavations produced stone...

Ancient Peru Cave Paleo Indian

6.9 Fair