DRK – Darra ki Chattan – Southern Wall

Daraki-Chattan with more than 500 cupules on its both the vertical walls is an extraordinary Palaeolithic Cupule site in Chambal basin in Bhanpura-Gandhisagar region. Cupules in Daraki-Chattan cave are circular...

Bhimbetka – The Centre of Attraction

Later on the discovery of Bhimbetka rock shelters, Wakankar along with his students of Kalabhawan, Ujjain, carried out scientific numbering of rock shelters, copied and studied rock art there in and did archaeo...

Bhimbetka – The Discovery

V.S. Wakankar discovered a number of rock art sites (Wakankar 1978, 2005); the famous among them is the discovery of Bhimbetka in Raisen district, 45 km southwest of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. He discovered it w...

Bhimbetka – The World Heritage Rock Art Site

The Bhimbetka complex of rock shelters has being receiving wide publicity in the world because of its nomination as the world heritage site under natural and human cultural heritage category by UNESCO in 2003....

THE ROCKART SOCIETY OF INDIA (RASI)

The Rock Art Society of India (RASI) was founded in the national conference on rock art held in Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed to be University) in 1990. It has more than 200 Members from different dis...

Mission Rock Art

Abstract: This lecture is my humble tribute to my revered guru, the late Padmashri Dr V.S. Wakankar, the doyen and founding father of rock art science in India. I am grateful to RASI and its authorities to prov...

EIP Project

The EIP Project is a collaboration of the Rock Art Society of India (RASI) and the Australian Rock Art Research Association Inc. (AURA), under the aegis of the International Federation of Rock Art Organisations...