Sharing with Saturday's Critters
Amazon rainforest in modern-day Colombia, archaeologists recently discovered an 8-mile-long canvas filled with ice age drawings of giant sloths, mastodons and other extinct beasts, dating back to between 11,800 years and 12,600 ago.
by William Nicholson,Velveteen Rabbit
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...so procrastination is the key to productivity? That's great to hear!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, there certainly are a lot of folks who can’t do the project until the last minute before deadlines.
DeleteThe canvas sounds intriguing.
ReplyDeleteIt sure is a lot of rock painting…
DeleteUnbelievable that those rock paintings have survived, long after the animals portrayed have disappeared. I wonder what the medium they used to paint with was made of.
ReplyDeleteRed iron is pretty available in many parts of the earth...rust. But perhaps this is something different. It's pretty amazing, isn't it?
DeleteWe sprang forward earlier this week by setting our alarm to 5:30 am and trying to go to bed earlier.
ReplyDeleteI've not heard of the incredible drawings in the Amazon. I'll have to see if Archaeology Mag has had any article about it.
You are so smart to start changing your own time to the change of DST. Yes, check out more on the rock art.
DeleteI love that mural at the top and the next two paintings. I have seen in person equally old cliff paintings in the Pecos river valley is west Texas. I wonder if the one in the Amazon is a sort of map or the story of hunting prowess.
ReplyDeleteThese early depictions show what was of value to our ancestors, before the written word. I always enjoy seeing them, and not being able to figure out what they might mean. Ignorant in my own time.
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ReplyDeleteBeautiful collection of art work and critters. I love the them all!
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DeleteMy feed is so slow. This finally showed up. I must find out more about the Amazon painting, never knew about it before.
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