Wednesday, 2 December 2020

Prehistoric Rock Art Depicting Now-Extinct Animals Discovered in Colombia

Prehistoric Rock Art Depicting Now-Extinct Animals Discovered in Colombia

One year ago, a team of British-Colombian researchers that was funded by the European Research Council came upon a remarkable discovery in the SerranĂ­a de la Lindosa, an extremely remote part of the Colombian Amazon. The discovery is a remarkably monumental example of prehistoric art: a nearly eight-mile stretch of paintings of both humans and mysterious animals that spans a steep cliffside, and which has been referred to as the “Sistine Chapel of the ancients.”

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