thatshowthingstarted: Rock Art of La Lindosa Guavire, Chiribiquete National Park, Colombia, Aba
thatshowthingstarted: Rock Art of La Lindosa Guavire, Chiribiquete National Park, Colombia, Abandoned for millennia by those who painted them, and in these sun-washed foothills where for decades the Colombian Army waged war with FARC, the paintings found on Serranía La Lindosa and being studied by anthropologists are a rare window on an Amazonian people that inhabited this region as early as 10,000 B.C. The fiery red drawings of armadillos, deer, boas and other endemic species could be considered among the oldest in the world, pre-dating the cave drawings in Lascaux, France. These yet unnamed site at Serranía de la Lindosa isn’t the first discovery of ancient art work in the Colombian Amazon. Around 75,000 rock art paintings have been found in Chiribiquete National Park, one of the last frontiers of the modern world, and they’re part of an ongoing study. The Serranias (mountain ranges) of Chiribiquete and La Lindosa are among the areas in Colombia that were closed to the public during the armed conflict and are now opening up to scientific researchers. The area is so vast and so remote that contact has still not been made with some indigenous tribes who live there. -- source link