贵州岩画发现于上个世纪50年代,人们在六枝县的桃花洞首次发现了一批岩画,而六枝桃花洞还是贵州古人类遗址之一,考古学家曾在此发掘出人类股骨化石、石器以及各种哺乳动物化石,这是旧石器晚期的一处原始文化遗址。70年代以来,人们又相继在关岭、开阳等几个县境内发现了多处岩画。2002年,距省城贵阳仅30公里的龙里巫山大岩脚又发现一处岩画群,这是迄今为止在贵州境内发现的最大的 Guizhou petroglyphs were discovered in the 1950s. People first discovered a group of petroglyphs at Peach Blossom Cave in Liuzhi County, and Peach Blossom Cave is one of the ancient human sites in Guizhou. Archaeologists unearthed human femur fossils, Stone and various mammalian fossils, which is a primitive Paleolithic cultural site. Since the 1970s, many rock paintings have been discovered in several counties including Guanling and Kaiyang successively. In 2002, a group of petroglyphs was discovered at the Dayanshi of Wushan, Longli, only 30 km away from the provincial capital, Guiyang, which is by far the largest found in Guizhou