5,000 cave paintings discovered in Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

5,000 cave paintings discovered in Mexico
Agence France-Presse
Posted at 05/24/2013 9:34 AM | Updated as of 05/24/2013 9:34 AM

MEXICO CITY - Archeologists have found nearly 5,000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in a northeastern Mexico mountain range where pre-Hispanic groups were not known to have existed.

The yellow, red, white and black paintings depict humans, deers, lizards and centipedes, suggesting that the groups hunted, fished and gathered food, according to the National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH).

They also painted religious, astronomical and abstract scenes and most of the images are very well preserved.

The archeologists were not able to date the 4,926 paintings, but they could conduct chemical and radiocarbon analyses to try to determine how old they are.

The ancient artwork was discovered in 11 different sites in the caves and mountain gaps of the municipality of Burgos in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders the United States. More than 1,550 images were painted in one location dubbed "The Cave of Horses."

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[Yo_Mama]

1. Well, that's a confusing article

Horses in the Americas are supposed to have become extinct more than 11K years ago:
http://www.livescience.com/717-humans-wiped-wild-horses.html
They were then reintroduced by the Spaniards.

So I gather that the paintings of the horses must have been made after the Spaniards had moved into SA?

Link about NA horse history:
http://www.livescience.com/9589-surprising-history-america-wild-horses.html

The Yukon horse mtDNA is supposed to be very similar to the European horse.