ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: Scientists had estimated the paintings in the caves and overhangs in Baja California's Sierra de San Francisco range at 500-1,500 years old. New research dates them back 11,000 years — to around the end of the first ice age.
S1: Rock paintings by ancient indigenous people can be seen all over the southwest in the rugged canyons of Baja , California. There are cave paintings that are much older than we thought. The paintings are in the Rocky Mountain caves and overhangs in the Sierra de San Francisco mountain Range in Baja that is located about halfway down the peninsula in northeastern Baja. When they were first dated back in the 1970s , they were estimated to be about 500 to 1500 years old.
S2: Yes. That's when they believe that the first populations of humans established themselves on the Baja Peninsula.S3: We know that in historical periods , I mean , the 16th century they were in the south , particularly white kura , half of the peninsula , and then Yuma people as coaching means. And at the time the Spanish arrived , the missionaries ask the question if they were the ones who made the rock paint. And they say that when they arrived , the paint were already there. Wow.
S1: Now , Professor Craig told us that the human figures , many of the human figures depicted could be shamans. S2: This is one figure , a single figure. There was an arrow that was 4100 years old. Paint from the chest was 4800 years old. A finger was over 6000 years old and paint from the leg was 6500 years old. And they want to say and that in their report that there was a indicated a long cultural tradition over almost 5000 years of touching up and adding new figures and elements. And that was deliberate. And so there was a continuous culture that extended several millennia.
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