岩画是指在岩崖、岩壁、岩穴、岩石上作的画,通过浮雕、彩绘、线刻呈现。古人用岩画来反映社会生产诸如狩猎、放牧、农业和人们的宗教信仰等,多表现崇拜、祭祀等民间活动。岩画是神秘的,岩画对于我们了解人类史前文明具有特别重要的意义。全球岩画的记载历史很长,从远古时代到现在已有四万多年的历史,全球五大洲都有发现岩画的记载,主要分布在欧洲、非洲和亚洲。 Petroglyphs are paintings made on rock cliffs, rock walls, caves and rocks and are presented through relief, painting and line engraving. The ancients used petroglyphs to reflect social activities such as hunting, grazing, agriculture and people’s religious beliefs, etc., and showed many folk activities such as worship and ritual worship. Petroglyphs are mysterious and petroglyphs are of particular importance for us to understand human prehistoric civilization. The records of the world’s petroglyphs have a long history of more than 40,000 years from ancient times to the present. Petroglyphs have been found on five continents, mainly in Europe, Africa and Asia.