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there is no way of knowing all the
different Pathways people took on their
way into the Amazon but dramatic
evidence reveals this was clearly a very
important one
because those ancient Travelers covered
the Cliffs of the low mountains of LA
lindosa with painted figures
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thousands of them
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it's a fabulous world that those ancient
people painted here
they represent the animals they live
with and the plants they live with
these figures capture the thoughts of
many groups over thousands of years
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some of the figures seem to represent
the magic and Shamanism of their rituals
but there are also geometric figures and
human figures
the ocher pigments contain iron oxide
minerals from the Earth
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foreign
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he feels the paintings Express a
profound kinship with the natural world
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unlike us today who feel we are separate
from the jungle
those people were part of it along with
the rest of the animal and vegetable
world
just another being of the jungle
along with the figures of humans and
animals of today's rainforest like deer
tapers and jaguars there seemed to be
animals that went extinct thousands of
years ago
it is a reminder of just how ancient
some of the paintings probably are
we are talking about 12 600 years ago at
that time there was a fauna that no
longer exists in South America
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all of these animals left with humans up
until about 10 000 years ago when they
started to go extinct
animales so here we think there are
animals of the last ice age like the
giant sloth right behind me
the painted Cliffs of La lindosa open a
remarkable window on the lives and minds
of the first ice age amazonians