Hello from 30,000 years ago!

Did you know that our earliest ancestors have said, “I was here” for over 30,000 years? And yet of the approximately 60-120 billion humans who have lived on the earth we have historical data on less than 1%. We have lost so much!

Take for instance Cueva de las Manos, Santa Cruz, Argentina (picture shown). The art in the cave dates from 13,000 to 9,000 years ago.[1] Several waves of people occupied the cave, and early artwork has been carbon-dated to ca. 9300 BP (about 7300 BC).[1] The age of the paintings was calculated from the remains of bone-made pipes used for spraying the paint on the wall of the cave to create silhouettes of hands. This cave is not unique in this expression nor is the dating the oldest. There are similar paintings worldwide.
See also: Cave of El Castillo (approximately 40,800 years old), Cantabria, Spain. Pettakere Cave (approximately 35,000-40,000 years old), South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Do these paintings speak to us? Yes, just as in the past and so today there is an inherent need to say “I was here.” The challenge to document and archive this valued history is now made easy with Living Family History.

Renz

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ED

Carlos J. Gradin has studied the cave.[1] Cueva de las Manos has been listed as a World Heritage Site since 1999. “Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas.” UNESCO World Heritage List. Retrieved 7 March 2012.