Posted on 10/22/2023 9:34:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In Puerto Rican caves, there are three types of art: petroglyphs (carved into the rock), pyroglyphs (drawn from the burnt remnants of objects), and pictographs, or cave drawings. Acosta-Colon says these pictograph drawings are in organic black material, perfect for radiocarbon dating...
The earliest pictographs of abstract, geometrical shapes were dated to ca. 700–400 BCE, coinciding with the Archaic Age...
They found that more anthropological-type drawings—with simple shapes of human bodies—were drawn between 200 and 400 CE. "We have gaps of time and that's interesting because we don't know what happened," says Acosta-Colon...
The research team also found more detailed human and animal drawings that were created between 700 and 800 CE. These types of drawings continued throughout the next century, extending through European colonization (around 1500 CE), and include images of horses, ships, and other animals.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
those petroglyphs don’t look all that old. They look like something a couple of kids drew. (could be just me.)
Petroglyphs and cave art in general, including the prehistoric stuff, probably *was* drawn by kids, IMHO.
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