Thanks blueplum.
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....
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Thanks blueplum.
Of course it was “previously unknown”....................
They know the paintings are genuine because they also found a Certificate of Authenticity.
ANCIENT GRAFITTI
Thanks. Hard to imagine the painting would still be there.
It’s as plain as day...that’s the DNC convention in Chicago!!
+1
5.56mm
It could be from the same rock art culture that left this kind of thing throughout the hemisphere over a long period of time.
What’s needed is, someone with some better cognition than this guy:
“It is almost impossible to get into the minds of people living so many [thousands of] years ago” Pérez-Gómez said, but “definitely these signs had a ritual meaning.” ... While it’s unknown exactly how old the rock art is, similar rock art in Brazil has been dated to around 4,000 years ago.
Brazil, up to 12.5K old:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4255666/posts
LOL... SouthSide!
heh heh heh
You’re short-changing the term rock art” if there’s no Frank Frazetta or Roger Dean.
I saw a BBC film where Steve Backshall and some guys rock-climbed to the top of that thing. It was one harrowing expedition, and it was obvious why caves on it might go undiscovered (and unexplored) for forever and a week.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b073gr87/episodes/guide
... and Storm Thorgerson.
Jorgerson woked on nearly all of Pink Floy's best albums.
Dean did the Asia cover but here's some other classics. Really too many of his to choose from.
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