Rock Art of Alta

Alta · Norway

Rock Art of Alta, Norway
Photo: Karl Brodowsky, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May–September
Budget
$$$
Coordinates
Open in maps

This group of petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arctic Circle, bears the traces of a settlement dating from c. 4200 to 500 B.C. The thousands of paintings and engravings add to our understanding of the environment and human activities on the fringes of the Far North in prehistoric times.

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