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Archaeologist Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for 2024-11-07 ( 1 items )  
University of Exeter: Indigenous Elders and Ritual Specialists Help to Unlock the Meaning of Ancient Amazonian Rock Art (10)
EXETER, England, Nov. 7 -- The University of Exeter issued the following news: By Andrew Merrington Archaeologists documenting tens of thousands of rock art motifs in the Colombian Amazon have been consulting with Indigenous elders and ritual specialists to help interpret their meaning. Ochre paintings depicting native wildlife that also feature heavily in creation stories - such as jaguars and anaconda - and scenes of people transforming into animals have been discovered at numerous sites  more PR