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Eight-mile wall of prehistoric paintings is discovered in AmazonAn eight-mile wall of prehistoric rock art featuring animals and humans, which is now being called the 'Sistine Chapel of the ancients', has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest.

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The Sistine Chapel of the ancients: Eight-mile wall of prehistoric paintings of extinct animals and people painted by first humans to reach South America 12,500 years ago is discovered in the Amazon rainforest

Eight-mile wall of prehistoric rock art in Colombia featuring animals and humans created 12,500 years ago
Includes depictions of extinct animals from the ice age such as the mastodon and palaeolama - camel relative
Unclear which Amazonian tribe created artwork but natives thought to have been there for 17,000 years

By ISABELLA NIKOLIC and EMILY WEBBER FOR MAILONLINEPUBLISHED: 12:41 EST, 29 November 2020 | UPDATED: 11:36 EST, 30 November 2020

An eight-mile wall of prehistoric rock art featuring animals and humans has been discovered in the Amazonian rainforest after it was created up to 12,500 years ago. The historical artwork, which is now being called the 'Sistine Chapel of the ancients', was uncovered on cliff faces last year in the Chiribiquete National Park, Colombia, by a British-Colombian team of archaeologists funded by the European Research Council.

The date of the paintings has been based on the portrayal of extinct animals from the ice age such as the mastodon - a prehistoric relative of the elephant which hasn't been seen in South America for at least 12,000 years. There are also depictions of palaeolama - an extinct member of the camel family, as well as giant sloths and ice age horses.

Although it is unclear exactly which tribe created the paintings, there are two main indigenous tribes of the Amazon which are believed to have been around for thousands of years - the Yanomami (1759) and the Kayapo. Until the discovery of these paintings, anything known about the region's history before 1500 has been inferred from scant archaeological evidence such as ceramics and arrow heads.

Mr Iriarte told The Observer: 'We're talking about several tens of thousands of paintings. It's going to take generations to record them … "

'We started seeing animals that are now extinct. The pictures are so natural and so well made that we have few doubts that you're looking at a horse, for example. The ice-age horse had a wild, heavy face. It's so detailed, we can even see the horse hair. It's fascinating.'

The documentary's presenter, Ella Al-Shamahi, shared her excitement at seeing the images being brought back to life.

“One of the most fascinating things was seeing ice age megafauna because that’s a marker of time. I don’t think people realise that the Amazon has shifted in the way it looks. It hasn’t always been this rainforest. When you look at a horse or mastodon in these paintings, of course they weren’t going to live in a forest. They’re too big– that in itself is just mind-boggling – but they are also giving clues about what this very spot might have looked like: more savannah-like.”

The site is in the Serrania de la Lindosa where, along with the Chiribiquete national park. The discovery happened in 2019, but was kept secret. Channel 4 series Jungle Mystery: Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon, in December 2020

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