WCS researchers discovered 4,000-10,000 year-old cave
drawings
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 (see link below). 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.