Experience Worldheritage
Rock carvings and rock paintings found in many parts of the world. In Sweden, carvings especially numerous in northern Bohuslän. The rock carvings dated to the Bronze Age, the millennial era between 1500 BC to about 500 BC.
Nowhere is the rock carvings so unique, magnificent and varied as the Tanum. Around Tanum plains are the epitome of artistic and technically unique carvings.
The most famous rockcarving area in Tanum is Vitlycke, Aspeberget, Litsleby, Fossum, Torsbo and Kalleby. Tanum rockcarvings special status meant that UNESCO decided in 1994 that the area south of Tanumshede be included on the World Heritage List – the World Heritage List.
World Heritage Committee’s reasons for making a World Heritage Site in Tanum was: Tanum rock area is an outstanding example of Bronze Age art of the highest quality. The range of motifs provides rare evidence of life during the European Bronze Age. The interplay between the continuous settlement and land use, as reflected in the carvings, the cemeteries and the landscape, make Tanum to an outstanding example of continuous human settlement for eight thousand years.
In doing so, Sweden has committed itself to forever cherish and preserve the carvings. With a location on the World Heritage List, interest and availability requirements of the tourism industry has increased. A new museum building at Vitlycke which acts as an information center for rock carvings was inaugurated on 4 April 1998..
Read more >> www.vitlyckemuseum.se
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