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The Mont Bego Petroglyphs are an extensive collection of prehistoric rock art located in the Mercantour National Park in the French Alps. The site contains approximately 40,000 Bronze Age engravings concentrated around the Mont Bego massif. The carvings depict cattle, weapons, agricultural fields, a...
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Major Alpine Bronze Age engraving landscape with huge corpus and strong research tradition; access constraints limit mass popularity.
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The Fontanalba Petroglyphs are a dense concentration of prehistoric rock engravings located in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France, near Mount Bego. As part of the broader Vallée des Merveilles, this area contains tens of thousands of carvings dating back to the Bronze Age. The engravings predomina...
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Dense Mont Bego zone with important pastoral engravings; valued by specialists, less famous than the wider massif.
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