Africa may have 200, 000 rock-art sites, more than any other continent.
The group grew in popularity as the '80s progressed, and 1988's Daydream Nation was widely hailed as a masterpiece of noise-influenced art-rock.
However Alt-J's experimental art-rock album An Awesome Wave and London singer Jessie Ware's debut Devotion have been tipped for success by rival bookmakers Paddy Power.
This raw and moody drama from 1994 by the husband-and-wife team of Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky (they co-wrote, she directed and edited, he photographed, in appealingly grainy black-and-white) captures a moment of grungy charm when independent art-rock scenes were new and resolutely local.
For a man who can pump out such blistering, no-nonsense post-punk hard rock, the air of the more mannered art-school rocker hangs thickly around Jack White.
As guitarist for the Baltimore band Wilderness, Colin McCann creates cerebral and spacious art-rock.
The result is a uniquely grandiose, profoundly affecting brand of art-rock that sounds entirely contemporary, but also hearkens back to the golden eras of Dylan, Springsteen, David Byrne and Kate Bush, among others.
Korea's, meanwhile, dates back 8-9, 000 years - the oldest documented anywhere on the planet - with ancient rock art showing the unmistakeable coming together of harpoon and whale, and piles of bones testifying to their consumption.
Troy Scotter, who researches rock art in Utah, has some reservations about the vogue for archaeology-themed suburbs.
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We know this not only by the strange, shiny grey appearance of the sandstone - caused by centuries of polishing by human skin - but also by the fluent lines of Aboriginal art on the overhanging rock face beside me.
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