00:04These cave paintings were recently discovered in Patagonia in Argentina, and experts say this is an archaeological find for the
00:11record books, as these are now considered the oldest such cave drawings ever discovered on the continent.
00:16All in all, there are 895 paintings found in the Huana I cave, a massive cavern some 6,781 square
00:25feet large. Now, after extensive investigations of the ancient works, the archaeologists say they are around 8,200 years old.
00:32What's more, the researchers say that the practice of keeping particular patterns on the walls was sustained for three millennia,
00:39which they said could have been a practice which was passed down for close to 130 human generations.
00:44They say this is an excellent illustration of what could have been artistic and cultural transmission of hunter-gatherer societies
00:50during the Holocene period.
00:51The Holocene period lasted from around 7,000 to around 5,000 years ago.
00:56The archaeologists add that these cave paintings show the Stone Age culture's resilience to things like climate change and how
01:02they may have communicated between unconnected tribes.
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