Posted on Feb 15, 2024
These South American cave paintings reveal a surprisingly old tradition
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Near the southernmost tip of South America, people may have started cave painting nearly 8,200 years ago, several millennia earlier than previously suggested by ancient rock art in that area.
Dating of comblike depictions in a cave in Argentina indicates that these designs belonged to a rock art tradition that lasted more than 3,000 years, ending around 5,100 years ago, researchers report February 14 in Science Advances. Ancient South Americans painted a variety of designs on the cave’s internal wall and part of its ceiling over roughly 130 generations, probably to preserve cultural knowledge shared by regional hunter-gatherer groups, archaeologist Guadalupe Romero Villanueva and colleagues say.
Dating of comblike depictions in a cave in Argentina indicates that these designs belonged to a rock art tradition that lasted more than 3,000 years, ending around 5,100 years ago, researchers report February 14 in Science Advances. Ancient South Americans painted a variety of designs on the cave’s internal wall and part of its ceiling over roughly 130 generations, probably to preserve cultural knowledge shared by regional hunter-gatherer groups, archaeologist Guadalupe Romero Villanueva and colleagues say.
These South American cave paintings reveal a surprisingly old tradition
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Just Recently National Geographic Had A Program, Pointing Out Many New Discoveries;
Including Their Suspicions Of The Woolly Mammoth Still Living In Alaska's Millions Of Acres
Of Yet Investigated Forested Areas. ...They're Receiving Ground Sounds Of Very Large Animals, Much Larger Than Elephants, Walking Around In Herds... And Also Fish, Previously Listed As Extinct, Are Being Located Deep In The Seas..... Facts Are Only Facts Until Proven Otherwise: There Was A Time When The World Was FLAT........And, At That Time, It Was A Fact; Believing Otherwise Was Heresy; Punishable By Death..... But Personally?....I KNOW It's Square.
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I can paint a house but I can't paint a picture. These cave dwellers were the Rembrandts of the Stone age!
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