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Jennifer Nalewicki

12,500-year-old rock art 'canvas' in the Amazon reveals early Americans' connection with wildlife

A massive rock wall covered in red-colored rock art.

A gallery of striking ochre paintings drawn onto massive rock faces offers insight into the close relationship between humans and animals living in the Amazon thousands of years ago.

The artwork is located on rocky outcroppings at Cerro Azul in Serranía de la Lindosa, a cliff in Colombia. It features 3,223 drawings of humans and animals, including a menagerie of fish, reptiles and mammals of various sizes, according to a new study in the September issue of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

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