Cueva de las Manos
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Location
Santa Cruz

Country
Argentina

Year of Research
1999

Culture
    The Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas,has an exceeding gatherings of cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago.
    It takes its name (Cave of the Hands) from the stencilled outlines of human hands in the cave, but there are also many pictures of animals, such as guanacos (Lama guanicoe), still normally present in the region, as well as hunting scenes.
    The people executive for the paintings may have been the ancestors of the historic hunter-gatherer communities of Patagonia found by European settlers in the 19th century.





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