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World Heritage
Rock art sites
The Rock art figures
- Anthropomorphic
- Antlers
- Artefact
- Axe
- Bear
- Bear den
- Bear track
- Bird
- Boat
- Bow
- Breast
- Calf
- Carving
- Club-shaped
- Contour with infill
- Contour without infill
- Cormorant/Shag
- Crew marker
- Cross-shaped
- Cub
- Dog/Wolf
- Drop-shaped
- Drum
- Elk
- Elk head
- Elk head staff
- Elk track
- Extended gunwale
- Extended keel
- Face
- Fish
- Fishing line
- Footpring/Sole
- Fox
- Frame/Lattice
- Fully pecked
- Geometric/Abstract
- Goose
- Halibut
- Hand/Fingers
- Hare
- Harpoon
- Head decoration
- Hip/Belly
- Hooves
- Human
- Hunting fence
- Line
- Oars
- Other motif
- Overlap/Superimposition
- Painting
- Partial
- Pecked
- Penis
- Pregnant
- Reindeer
- Reindeer head
- Reindeer track
- Salmon
- Seal
- Ski
- Snowshoe print
- Snowshoes
- Spear
- Swan
- Sword
- T-shaped
- Unclassified animal
- Unclassified animal head
- Unclassified animal track
- Unclassified artefact
- Unclassified body feature
- Unclassified cervid
- Unclassified motif
- Vulva
- Whale
- With fringes
- Zigzag
- Zoomorphic
Alta Rock Art Archive
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Cub

Bear figures that – based on relative size – are considered to be depictions of cubs.

A mother and her cub Photo: Karin Tansem

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Alta Museum IKS

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