I don’t really know why I found this site so impressive but it is hugely so-Perhaps it was the size of the rocks, perhaps it was the sheer enormity of time; from the time these rock drawings were made to when they were discovered in 1957. Perhaps it was the way they had been sculpted into shelters and sanctuaries by the elements over thousands of years.
It is a world Heritage Site. Well worth the trip. The earliest rock drawings date back 10,000 years ago. More drawings were made during the Stone Age, some 8000 to 5000 BC. The light was fading and the earthy colours were not easy to see but there was real sense of excitement as we spotted herds of deer and bison, but also elephants and tigers.Finding the figures, some almost like stick people, others fleshed out. They used ochre, the pigment from the earth, and a green pigment maybe from plants, to denote their lives, their hunting parties and all that mattered to them so long ago.
It is a world Heritage Site. Well worth the trip. The earliest rock drawings date back 10,000 years ago. More drawings were made during the Stone Age, some 8000 to 5000 BC. The light was fading and the earthy colours were not easy to see but there was real sense of excitement as we spotted herds of deer and bison, but also elephants and tigers.Finding the figures, some almost like stick people, others fleshed out. They used ochre, the pigment from the earth, and a green pigment maybe from plants, to denote their lives, their hunting parties and all that mattered to them so long ago.
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