(NLDO) - Artworks from a mysterious 4,000-year-old culture have been discovered en masse in Venezuela's Canaima National Park.
According to Live Science , at Canaima National Park, a series of excavations have revealed up to 20 prehistoric art sites, belonging to a culture that existed thousands of years ago in an area that is now an uninhabited mountainous area.
A work of art belonging to a mysterious culture in Venezuela - Photo: José Miguel Pérez-Gómez
A research team led by archaeologist José Miguel Pérez-Gómez from Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) analyzed the strange works mentioned above.
They were compared with a range of artworks from other ancient South American civilizations outside Venezuela, but no complete identification was found.
There is only one reasonable answer: Those works must belong to a completely separate culture, never before recorded in history.
One of the areas where ancient artworks were discovered - Photo: José Miguel Pérez-Gómez
Another work in natural light - Photo: José Miguel Pérez-Gómez
Canaima National Park may have been the “starting point” where this mysterious culture first developed, before dispersing to places as far away as the Amazon River, the Guianas and even southern Colombia.
In those areas, several other more recent prehistoric art sites have been found, which, while still different, are likely to be successors to those found in Venezuela.
In addition to the works carved into the cave walls, scientists also collected many ceramic objects and stone tools at the 20 sites mentioned above.
Initial analysis suggests the sites date back to around 4,000 years ago.
Canaima National Park is a vast park, the size of Belgium, consisting of complex forests and mountainous terrain, and is also home to Angel Falls, the world's highest uninterrupted dry waterfall.
Perhaps because it is hidden deep in this mountainous region, the above culture is almost isolated from the rest of humanity, unknown even though it once developed very strongly.
More excavation and analysis will be needed to understand this culture. Archaeologists are still combing through this huge national park.
They believe that many more sites containing rock art and tools, and even direct traces of humans or settlements, remain hidden under the forest canopy.
Source: https://nld.com.vn/20-di-chi-bi-an-tiet-lo-ve-nen-van-hoa-nhan-loai-chua-tung-biet-196240704105717835.htm
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