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Cave Painting in South America

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 Serra da Capivara National Park in the north of Brazil is a national park that was created to protect many prehistoric cave paintings found here. This is now a world heritage site. The picture above is an image of some cave paintings found at this site.

Cueva de loas manos this is the Spanish for the "Cave of hands". It is located in Santa Cruz,Argentina beside these paintings of hands there is also cave paintings of human beings, rheas and felines with that there are images of zigzag patterns that represent the sun and images of hunting scenes. paintings a lot alike are found very near this cave.

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The image of hands on a cave wall have been dated for around 550BC. Most of these hands are left which tells us that the painter held the spray pipe in there right hand or the dexterous hand. Most of the hands are the size of a 13 year old boy some think that they stamped there hand as a sign there were moving into adult hood.