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Sprawling 8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered hidden in Amazon rainforest ... Ice age people painted these animals 12,600 years ago.
https://www.livescience.com ^ | 01 DEC 2020 | By Laura Geggel - Associate Editor

Posted on 12/02/2020 11:45:51 AM PST by Red Badger

An 8-mile-long "canvas" filled with ice age drawings of mastodons, giant sloths and other extinct beasts has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest.

The gorgeous art, drawn with ochre — a red pigment frequently used as paint in the ancient world — spans nearly 8 miles (13 kilometers) of rock on the hills above three rock shelters in the Colombian Amazon, a new study finds.

"These really are incredible images, produced by the earliest people to live in western Amazonia," study co-researcher Mark Robinson, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter, who analyzed the rock art alongside Colombian scientists, said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: amazon; catastrophism; caveart; colombia; epigraphyandlanguage; ggg; glaciation; godsgravesglyphs; theamazon
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To: Red Badger

one of them looks like a fat weiner dog


21 posted on 12/02/2020 12:03:02 PM PST by RummyChick (I blame Kushner.)
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To: rktman

Maybe they did it like a tattoo :)


22 posted on 12/02/2020 12:03:42 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Red Badger

Dear Diary;

Today I herded some sabertooth tapirs...


23 posted on 12/02/2020 12:04:05 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Red Badger

Awesome. These posts always separate the clowns from the intelligent inquiring minds.


24 posted on 12/02/2020 12:06:47 PM PST by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts for corruption. SOROS IS "SPARTACUS" BOOKER'S LANISTA.)
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To: RummyChick
If you look at the overall 'Big Picture', doesn't it resemble a modern CONTROL PANEL, of a factory or NASA Space launch facility? Looks like TV Monitors and Signals and such..............
25 posted on 12/02/2020 12:10:18 PM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: Red Badger

Very fascinating. There looks to be some more ornate art in the upper part of the first picture, and maybe also the remains of color other than red?


26 posted on 12/02/2020 12:11:17 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Red Badger

Why does it say Kilroy was here?


27 posted on 12/02/2020 12:11:56 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: DouglasKC

Aliens..................


28 posted on 12/02/2020 12:12:13 PM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: DouglasKC

Red ochre is extremely durable, especially under rock overhangs. Rock with natural iron and rust inclusions stays red too. You can see where ochre residue did run off over the years and stain rock below. They probably killed lichen and fungus and mold before photographing it.


29 posted on 12/02/2020 12:13:53 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Red Badger
"spans nearly 8 miles (13 kilometers) of rock on the hills above three rock shelters in the Colombian Amazon, a new study finds."
30 posted on 12/02/2020 12:18:14 PM PST by edwinland
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To: Red Badger

Wow. Beats the hell out of Utah land art.


31 posted on 12/02/2020 12:24:02 PM PST by TChad
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To: LostInBayport

Looks like yellow ochre, too. Ochre clay comes in a range of yellows and reds and browns.


32 posted on 12/02/2020 12:26:16 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: LostInBayport

https://www.thoughtco.com/ochre-the-oldest-known-natural-pigment-172032#:~:text=Ochre%20%28rarely%20spelled%20ocher%20and%20often%20referred%20to,iron%20oxide%20which%20are%20described%20as%20earth-based%20pigments.


33 posted on 12/02/2020 12:27:35 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

do they ever find art that is more representative of things. Like an artist drawing a real face instead of a blob.

Seems to me like they should have been advanced enough to do such things. Perhaps the medium is the issue.


34 posted on 12/02/2020 12:28:56 PM PST by RummyChick (I blame Kushner.)
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To: Red Badger

So there was significant global warming from when they painted these pictures, and what bad thing happened because of it?

Not. A. Freaking. Thing. Bad.

But none of the moronic eco-freaks will take any notice of this, because...Science. Or something.


35 posted on 12/02/2020 12:29:43 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. )
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To: Red Badger

12,600 years? Not 12,700? how can they be so sure?

Hint: Follow the string and you will discover what frauds anthropologists and archaeologists can be. They literally just make stuff up. all too often. I learned a lot about this from a friend at church who is a PhD in Archaeology and teaches at the local college.


36 posted on 12/02/2020 12:29:45 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: lucky american

Roughly at that time there was very thick sheet of ice on top of New York City. Southern US had roughly the climate of Canada. The current tropics were temperate.


37 posted on 12/02/2020 12:32:45 PM PST by Reily
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To: Red Badger

Translation: “The War chief has a small dong.”
“Oog is sleeping with Moog’s wife.”
“Elder OogBoog likes to wear grass skirts.”

This is stone age grafitti.


38 posted on 12/02/2020 12:33:05 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Red Badger

If they could only invent exterior house paint that could withstand 12K years of rainforest weathering.


39 posted on 12/02/2020 12:37:24 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
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To: Red Badger

There were people there A LOT further back than that. I am glad this stuff is getting mainstreamed.

People in the Americas did not originate in Russia.


40 posted on 12/02/2020 12:41:34 PM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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