This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
Aboriginal engraving of a small man, on rock platform above Resolute Track (West Head).
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 2021
An Aboriginal engravng of a snake (which is bent double) along the Resolute Track.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Snake
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
An enormous Aboriginal engraving of a whale (just under 12m in length) above the Resolute Track.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
- View site sketch
Multiple stone arrangements and grinding grooves on a "Revelations Ridge" above Bowens Creek.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Stone arrangement
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 2023
Two leaping kangaroos engraved on a large rock platform next to the Road to Nowhere Trail.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Partially Destroyed, Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
A solitary engraving of a whale with an oblong figure at its snout. Nice views from this rock platform.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1898
- View site sketch
More than 6000 carvings on several sites around Alta, which bear the traces of settlement dating from 7000 to 500 BC. A walkway passes a number of panels in this UNESCO World Heritage listed area.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 6000
- Motifs: Axe, Bear, Bear track, Bird, Dog/Wolf, Elk, Fence, Fish, Man, Mundoe (foot), Rabbit, Reindeer, Sailing Ship, Seal, Spear, Whale
- Year first recorded: 1973
Two adjacent Aboriginal rock art sites on Rock Island in Wollemi National Park, with five hand stencils in white ochre.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 5
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2023
An isolated rock outcrop along Rocklily Ridge with Aboriginal grinding grooves.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG)
- Number of motifs: 5
- Year first recorded: 1988
Weathered and damaged by mountain bikes, the lower half of a man is just above the Rocky Ponds Firetrail.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Man
- Year first recorded: 1976
A rock art site with multiple panels in Rosy Canyon (Arizona); the largest panel has eight basket petroglyphs. Next to the petroglyphs is the remains of a dwelling and some pictographs.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 50
- Motifs: Anthropomorph, Basket, Elk, Man, Snake, Spiral
Sacred Canyon in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park has Aboriginal engraving on the walls of the gorge representing camp sites, springs and water holes.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 15
- Motifs: Bird Track, Oval
A large whale engraving on a vertical sandstone rock near Sailors Bay.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good, Graffiti damage
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Whale
- Year first recorded: 1970
Single Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo on a rock platform near the Salvation Loop Track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
- Year first recorded: 1988
Aboriginal engravings of four kangaroos, a wombat and what looks like an emu on a rock platform near the Salvation Loop Track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Emu, Kangaroo, Wombat
- Year first recorded: 1988
One of the most spectacular Aboriginal rock art sites in Sydney's north, with red ochre and charcoal drawings across two adjacent shelters.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 20
- Motifs: Deity, Goanna, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo, Man
- Year first recorded: 2021
One of the finest examples of easily accessible Anasazi rock art, the Sand Island Petroglyphs panel in Utah contains Native Indian rock art which ranges from 300 to 3,000 years old.
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving, Rock engraving - intaglio
- Number of motifs: 300
- Motifs: Hand, Horse, Kokopelli, Man, Sheep, Woman
A sandstone shelter near The Scenic Road which has a panel of Aboriginal rock art, including a bird, part of a kangaroo and many indeterminate figures.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 8
- Motifs: Bird, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1994
A single Aboriginal hand stencil in a small shelter below The Scenic Road
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2022
An Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo on a small rock platform near Scout Camp Road.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1976