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Spectacular Native American rock art newly discovered in the Colombian Amazon
A team of archaeologists has announced the discovery of spectacular murals of precontact Native American paintings on rock faces in the Colombian Amazon. The paintings, which stretch, discontinuously, for nearly 8 miles (13 kilometers) along cliff faces, are reported to date as far back as 12,500 years ago, very early in the currently understood chronology of the peopling of the Western Hemisphere.
La Lindosa. Blue sky rock art panel (Photo: Francisco Javier Aceituno Bocanegra)
These murals, which have been dubbed, melodramatically, as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients,” are more appropriately compared to Upper Paleolithic cave art in Europe and the rock art of aboriginal Australians.