Mysterious cave drawings found in Amazon reveal 'amazing insights' into ancient human life

Researchers are learning more about how early humans interpreted their surrounding environment by examining cave drawings.

ByEleanor Tolbert
10:59 ET, AUG 21 2024

Mysterious cave drawings found in Amazon reveal 'amazing insights' into ancient human life
Researchers are learning more about how early humans interpreted their surrounding environment by examining cave drawings.



GUAVIARE, COLOMBIA - MARCH 25: Rock art is seen at el Raudal del guayabero in Guaviare, Colombia, on March 25, 2021. Rock paintings made in South America around 8,000 - 12,000 years ago. The art, created on rock faces in the Serranía de la Lindosa, on the northern edge of the Colombian Amazon, is a riot of ochre-colored geometrical patterns, handprints, and images of animals and humans. The people who made these works of art were, it is believed, among the earliest humans to occupy the region, after migrations across what is now the Bering Strait some 25,000 years ago. (Photo by Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Rock art is seen at el Raudal del guayabero in Guaviare, Colombia (Image: Getty)


A new study dives into the relationship between early humans and their surroundings, as researchers uncover mysterious prehistoric cave drawings.

The researchers, who published their findings in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, analyzed the drawings, which depict half-human, half-animal creatures called therianthropes. The drawings were found in the Colombian Amazon on a stretch of clift called the Serranía de la Lindosa.

The Colombian Amazon “contains one of the richest collections of rock art in the world,” the study said. This particular cliffside dates back to 10,500 BC, though the art itself is not dated yet.

The Colombian Amazon “contains one of the richest collections of rock art in the world,” the study said. This particular cliffside dates back to 10,500 BC, though the art itself is not dated yet.

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