Prehistoric Rock Art discovered in the Amazon

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8. Amazing, but there are caveats here -

I have several colleagues in South America who have worked with rock art like this. They caution that animal depictions are often stylized and intended to convey messages beyond just what the animals looked like.

In other words, it's not at all clear that now-extinct large animals are actually depicted in any of this art.

This doesn't diminish the value of this discovery, but without knowing the intent of the artists, multiple interpretations are possible.