This group of pet­ro­glyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arc­tic Cir­cle, bears the traces of a set­tle­ment dat­ing from c. 4200 to 500 B.C. The thou­sands of paint­ings and engrav­ings add to our under­stand­ing of the envi­ron­ment and human activ­i­ties on the fringes of the Far North in pre­his­toric times.