Argentinian scientists from the National Research Council (CONICET) and the National Institute of Anthropology and Latin American Thought (INAPL) have revealed that prehistoric cave paintings found in a cave in the Patagonia region in the south of the country are much older than before. thought. The primitive gallery served to transmit knowledge to approximately 100 generations of people. The study was published in the scientific journal magazine Science Advances (SciAdv).
New radiocarbon dating showed that the images in the cave were created approximately 8,200 years ago, during the late Holocene period. This is several thousand years earlier than the previous estimate.
Archaeologists counted 895 unique artifacts in the underground gallery, grouped according to 446 motifs. Scientists consider this finding as a kind of history that spans approximately 3000 years.
Researchers noted that in the late Holocene, this region was very dry and hot, so hunter-gatherers used it for communication and left notes in the form of drawings on the cave walls. This helped the tribes survive in the harsh climate of ancient Patagonia.
Scientists in Tanzania before to create rock paintings of strange creatures with huge heads.