ByLaura Geggel-Associate Editor8 hours ago
Ice age people painted these animals 12,600 years ago.
Thousands of images drawn during the last ice age were found in the Amazon Rainforest.(Image: © Marie-Claire Thomas/Wild Blue Media)
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 withochre— a red pigment frequently used as paint in the ancient world — 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.
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