Alta petroglyphs
"The Stone Age in Finnmark"
Finnmark has been inhabited by people for thousand years.
The first petroglyph at this site was not discovered until 1972 because they were overgrown by moss and lichens.
Since then over 5000 petroglyphs have been discovered in this area and the plants obscuring them have been carefully removed.
The site was placed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites on 3 December 1985. It is Norway's only prehistoric World Heritage Site.


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