LOOK: 8,200-year-old cave paintings earliest ever found
Archaeologists have made another unbelievable discovery!
South Africa is known for its rich archaeological history.
From cave paintings to Mrs. Ples, there is a lot of history that has been discovered in this country.
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And it's likely there is more to be found.
Recently however an incredible archaeological finding has been made in South America.
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According to CNN Argentine and Chilean archaeologists have found 895 paintings in the Huenul 1 cave, a rock shelter located in the Neuquen province in Argentine Patagonia.
We were able to date four black peniform patterns that were drawn in charcoal. These proved to be the earliest direct dating of cave paintings in South America.
Archeologists found 895 cave paintings in Argentine Patagonia that date back 8,200 years, the earliest dated in South America https://t.co/ki2dnQIoIK pic.twitter.com/kqaQUZWGV8
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 8, 2024
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He also says that this discovery indicates that the practice of painting this particular pattern throughout the cave was sustained for at least 3,000 years.
It also provides further evidence of the artistic abilities and cultural transmissions of hunter-gatherer societies roughly 7,000 to 5,000 years ago (also known as the middle Holocene).
We believe these images in particular were part of a resilient response of the mobile hunter-gatherer groups that occupied this cave and the desert environments of northern Patagonia to the climatic challenge of a period of extreme dryness that occurred during the middle Holocene.
Who knows what we will find in the future!
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