Posted on 08/08/2024 11:11:24 PM PDT by blueplum
An archeological team in Venezuela has discovered 20 rock art sites that date back thousands of years in Canaima National Park, in the southeastern part of the country.
While archaeologists have found similar rock art designs elsewhere in South America, the newfound art "represents a new culture previously unknown," José Miguel Pérez-Gómez, an archaeologist and researcher at Simón Bolívar University in Caracas who is leading the team, told Live Science in an email.
Some of these designs, which researchers call "pictograms," were drawn in red and depict geometric motifs such as lines of dots, rows of X's, star-shaped patterns and straight lines that connect together to form a variety of designs....
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Could be the work of one “artist”.
thanks very much for the pix, Chode. I’m really surprised at the blues in the art - it seems uncommon.
It’s as plain as day...that’s the DNC convention in Chicago!!
welcome, and VERY surprised, specially how vibrant it is...
LOLOL!!! could very well be...
I see no details as to how they were protected from the environment for so many years. Were they in a cave?
Here is the 14-page research paper with detailed descriptions and photos of the several panels including the 'aerial' panel that likely required use of a ladder or ropes (click "full text: view' on the right hand side of the abstract to get to the paper)
3-d view of boulder from sketchfab
Looks like prisoners keeping track of their days in captivity.
Art? Or gang graffiti?
BINGO!
Kind of interesting how, in the bottom photo, the lines are so sloppy and then at the bottom the black and white checkers are so neat and straight. Kind of thing that makes you go, ‘hmmm’. cackle cackle cackle
the newfound art "represents a new culture previously unknown,"
Since all the physical components still exist...how do you really date it...
Above, I see a horse’s head.
Horses were re-introduced by Spanish explorers, spreading northward through Indian traders ahead of the Spanish explorers.
(After millions of years of evolutionary development, the horse disappeared from North America at the end of the Pleistocene).
https://news.unm.edu/news/research-looks-at-origins-of-presence-of-horses-in-north-america
“horse’s head”....hmmmmm....Italian culture
So, the tribes were there before Spain and Portugal were actually on “STOLEN LAND!”stolen from someone earlier. Been happening for the last 20 thousand years or earlier.
The second photo looks like it was made by a guy that stuttered.
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