WCS researchers discover 4,000- to 10,000-year-old cave drawings in Brazil

1/3. This is a drawing of a large cat and prey. Liana Joseph/WCS

While tracking white-lipped peccaries and gathering environmental data in forests that link Brazil's Pantanal and Cerrado biomes, a team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and a local partner NGO, Instituto Quinta do Sol, discovered ancient cave drawings made by hunter-gatherer societies thousands of years ago.

The drawings are the subject of a recently published study by archeologists Rodrigo Luis Simas de Aguiar and Keny Marques Lima in the journal Revista Clio Arqueológica . The diversity of the renderings, according to the authors, adds significantly to our knowledge of rock art from the Cerrado plateau region that borders the Pantanal.[...] eurekalert.org/

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Actualización 11-11-13. Científicos descubren pinturas rupestres en Brasil de hace 10.000 años