Tens of Thousands of Ice-Age Paintings Discovered in the Amazon(thisiscolossal.com)
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Tens of Thousands of Ice-Age Paintings Discovered in the Amazon
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/12/prehistoric-paintings-amazon/
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Yes, Toward the end of the last Ice Age, prehistoric artists painted tens of thousands of images—including depictions of mastodons, giant sloths and other now-extinct animals—on cliff walls in the Amazon rainforest.
How on earth did the people back then do the paintings up so high? Would the ice somehow have given better footholds than we have now?
I also wonder if it was a bunch of bored kids, that found the painting material and the surface, and figured this was as good a way of passing time as any. Or maybe it was adolescents getting high together, having visions, and doodling them on these walls day after day.