Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. [genres in the visual arts]
6. art genres

Narrower term/s

• cave art

Anotations

Scope note:

A broad category of images using living rock as a support or material, most often carved or pecked into or painted on, though sometimes extended to pictorial arrangements of rock. This term is most often used to describe works by ancient peoples. Describe related visual works with more specific terms: petroglyphs, pictographs, geoglyphs, or petroforms.