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

[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.

[RummyChick]

one of them looks like a fat weiner dog

[dp0622]

Maybe they did it like a tattoo :)

[SpaceBar]

Dear Diary;

Today I herded some sabertooth tapirs...

[ZULU]

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

[Red Badger]

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..............

[LostInBayport]

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?

[faithhopecharity]

Why does it say Kilroy was here?

[Red Badger]

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

[piasa]

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.

[edwinland]

"spans nearly 8 miles (13 kilometers) of rock on the hills above three rock shelters in the Colombian Amazon, a new study finds."

[TChad]

Wow. Beats the hell out of Utah land art.

[piasa]

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

[piasa]

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.

[RummyChick]

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.

[Ancesthntr]

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.

[Seruzawa]

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.

[Reily]

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.

[Seruzawa]

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.

[Deaf Smith]

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

[Vermont Lt]

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.