About Us

Swedish Rock Art Research Archives (SHFA) is a research infrastructure at the University of Gothenburg established in 2017. Europewide it is the largest research infrastructure providing researchers, education and the public with modern high quality and historic rock art documentation.

Since its beginnings SHFA has expanded beyond Sweden and today includes material from Denmark, Italy, Norway and Spain. In 2023 SHFA increased as an infrastructure by incorporating petroglyphs from Lake Onega in Russia and Austria. Today, we have digitized over 100,000 documentations of which more than a quarter is freely accessible through our webportal. Since its launch in 2011, the website had over 2.2 million visitors from over 120 countries. This stunning success has helped SHFA in recent years to secure funding for six research projects with over 80 million SEK with collaborators from 14 different nations.