Glösa

Glösa, located in Jämtland province in central Sweden, preserves approximately 60 petroglyphs carved 3,000-5,000 years ago by Stone Age hunters. The carvings predominantly depict elk and moose, with lines within animal bodies connected to circles or sun symbols representing the source of life. Alongside the rock art, archaeologists excavated over 90 trapping pits spaced 40-50 m apart, used for hunting elk over five millennia into the early 1800s. The site now operates as the Glösa rock art center, an open-air museum where the carvings are colored red for visibility.