BADANJ CAVE
Rock shelter decorated with the oldest trace of art in Bosnia-Herzegovina: an engraving made around 12,000 BC.
This rock shelter (Pećina Badanj) features a rock carving made around 12,000 BC. The site served as a refuge for hunter-gatherers between 18,000 and 12,000 B.C. It lies halfway up a 115 m high hill, above the Bregava River, 7 km southwest of Stolac. The engraving (approx. 60 x 35 cm) appears on a stone detached from the wall. It depicts the forequarters of a horse or deer being struck by several arrows. This figure, common to Mediterranean Paleolithic art, is the oldest rock engraving in the Balkans.
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