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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 β a red pigment frequently used as paint in the ancient world β 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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Thousands of images drawn during the last ice age were found in the Amazon Rainforest. (Image: Β© Marie-Claire Thomas/Wild Blue Media)
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Rock art showing humans interacting with ice age animals. (Image credit: Ella Al-Shamahi)
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To: SunkenCiv
PinGGG!.....................
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:46:12 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
To: Red Badger
Eight miles? That’s some kind of graffiti, there. Makes today’s taggers look pathetic.
To: Red Badger
Very cool. Plenty of abstracts as well (early attempt at glyphs?)
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:49:35 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: Red Badger
I thought it was so freaking hard to live back then and Every Second was accounted for..what with hunting for food etc.
What a scam.
They had Bureaucrats even then.
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:49:36 AM PST
by
dp0622
(Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: Sirius Lee
If you ask me, they were probably a bunch of pot smoking slackers!!!
But that’s just me :)
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:50:30 AM PST
by
dp0622
(Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: Sirius Lee
I see digital communication pulses..................
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:51:18 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
To: Red Badger
OMG! The climate changed. Those darned Fred Flintstone-Mobiles spewing gases...
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:53:12 AM PST
by
rfp1234
(Caveat Emperor)
To: Red Badger
Always like to see the outline of hands in the cave paintings. It is like a message reaching out across the eons saying “I was here. I survived. I achieved”.
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:54:32 AM PST
by
Flick Lives
(My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
To: Red Badger
“incredible images”
Not that anyone cares, but my personal assessment differs slightly.
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:55:28 AM PST
by
Fester Chugabrew
(I'd rather have a rude President than a polite tyrant.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:55:28 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Sirius Lee
Could some of that be a primitive attempt at writing - symbols they could “read” and not just drawings?
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:55:47 AM PST
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: Red Badger
I see an ad for Goo Gone.
Actually, I am very impressed. Thanks for posting.
To: HartleyMBaldwin
It's not like they had a lot to do. No TV. Just Hunting and fishing with the good ole boys.
Oh....that's what my dad did.
To: Red Badger
Is this right? 12,000 years in the rain forest and it still looks that good? We can’t even make house paint that lasts for more than 10 years.
To: Red Badger
Hey look! FUJoe and his dog!
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:57:47 AM PST
by
Adder
("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
To: dp0622
Apparently they too had time for “The arts”. π’πΊππ―πππ²
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:57:53 AM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
LOL
And I bet the hunters and dwelling builders paid for “the arts”!!!
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:59:08 AM PST
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dp0622
(Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: Red Badger
I always thought the Amazon was a hot rainforest. Damn that climate change. They had ice there?
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posted on
12/02/2020 11:59:36 AM PST
by
lucky american
(Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
To: dp0622
And it hasnt rinsed off in 12,000 years? Really?
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posted on
12/02/2020 12:01:39 PM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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