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岩画是史前人类留下的宝贵遗产。最近，在亚马孙热带雨林中发现了大量一万多年前的岩画，这为研究早期人类活动提供了新的资料。
Thousands of rock art pictures about huge Ice Age creatures have been revealed by researchers in the Amazon rainforest. The paintings were probably made around 11，800 to 12，600 years ago， according to a press release from researchers at Britains University of Exeter.
Located in the Serranía La Lindosa in modern?day Colombia， the rock art shows how the earliest human inhabitants of the area would have coexisted with Ice Age megafauna（大型野生动物群）. Other pictures show human figures，hunting scenes， as well as animals like deer， alligators， bats， monkeys and turtles.
“These really are incredible images， pro?duced by the earliest people living in western Amazonia，” said Mark Robinson， an archaeolo?gist at the University of Exeter.“The paintings give a vivid and exciting glimpse into the lives of these communities. It is unbelievable for us today to think they lived among， and hunted giant herbivores（食草动物）， some of which were the size of a small car.”
The red paintings make up one of the largest collections of rock art in South America. At the time when the drawings were made， Amazonia was changing from a mixture of savannahs（稀树草原）， tropical forest and thorny（多刺的） scrub（灌木丛） into the broad?leaf tropical forest we know today.
“These rock paintings are spectacular evidence of how humans reconstructed the land， and how they hunted， farmed and fished，” said José Iriarte， a professor of archaeology at Exeter. “It is likely that art was a powerful part of culture and a way for people to connect socially. The pictures show how people would have lived among giant， now extinct animals， which they hunted.”
Iriarte was impressed by the realism of the paintings， in which early humans lived alongside megafauna. “The level of observation of the fauna was incredible，” he said.
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Thousands of rock art pictures about huge Ice Age creatures have been revealed by researchers in the Amazon rainforest. The paintings were probably made around 11，800 to 12，600 years ago， according to a press release from researchers at Britains University of Exeter.
Located in the Serranía La Lindosa in modern?day Colombia， the rock art shows how the earliest human inhabitants of the area would have coexisted with Ice Age megafauna（大型野生动物群）. Other pictures show human figures，hunting scenes， as well as animals like deer， alligators， bats， monkeys and turtles.
“These really are incredible images， pro?duced by the earliest people living in western Amazonia，” said Mark Robinson， an archaeolo?gist at the University of Exeter.“The paintings give a vivid and exciting glimpse into the lives of these communities. It is unbelievable for us today to think they lived among， and hunted giant herbivores（食草动物）， some of which were the size of a small car.”
The red paintings make up one of the largest collections of rock art in South America. At the time when the drawings were made， Amazonia was changing from a mixture of savannahs（稀树草原）， tropical forest and thorny（多刺的） scrub（灌木丛） into the broad?leaf tropical forest we know today.
“These rock paintings are spectacular evidence of how humans reconstructed the land， and how they hunted， farmed and fished，” said José Iriarte， a professor of archaeology at Exeter. “It is likely that art was a powerful part of culture and a way for people to connect socially. The pictures show how people would have lived among giant， now extinct animals， which they hunted.”
Iriarte was impressed by the realism of the paintings， in which early humans lived alongside megafauna. “The level of observation of the fauna was incredible，” he said.
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