Since then, more than 750 rock shelters have been identified. It was only in the 1970s that the scale and true significance of the Bhimbetka rock shelters was discovered and reported. He visited the area with a team of archaeologists and reported several prehistoric rock shelters in 1957. The first archaeologist to visit a few caves at the site and discover its prehistoric significance was, who saw these rock formations and thought these were similar to those he had seen in Spain and France. He relied on the information he gathered from local (tribals) about Bhojpur lake in the area and referred to Bhimbetka as a site. Kincaid, a British India era official, first mentioned Bhimbetka in a scholarly paper in 1888. One of about 750 rock shelter caves at Bhimbetka.
