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    Bhimbetka Rock Shelter 13 and 14

    The Art of Rock Paintings
    by
    Palash Vaswani
    IDC, IIT Bombay
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    A world heritage site, Bhimbetka is located in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh state of India. The rock shelters of Bhimbetka are at a distance of 45km south east of Bhopal. This archaeological site has more than 700 rock shelters of which 400 caves have paintings, which shows the life of communities from the Mesolithic to the mediaeval times. It displays continuous sequence of cultures from Paleolithic to the Historical period. Bhimbetka’s painted rock shelters were inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2003.

    Two similar depiction of mythical boar like animal is seen inside the cavities of shelter 13. The shelter 14 is a mushroom shaped giant rock shelter is also known as Boar rock due to an enormous boar like mythical figure painted on its surface. It has two crescent shaped horns, a huge snout with whiskers and bristles on the back.

    For more details: http://www.dsource.in/resource/bhimbetka
     

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