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Thanks to modern scanning techniques Archaeological searches today have increased many times over. For instance, we wrote how among the jungle of the Yucatan Peninsula scientists more than seventy thousand buildings were discovered by lidar Mayan civilization, which was simply impossible to do based on previous search tools.
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Archaeologists of India made an equally amazing discovery, using again such advanced technologies, thanks to which found petroglyphs in the state of Maharashtra, which at least 12 thousand years. The most amazing thing is that these cave paintings belong to an ancient civilization still unknown science.
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Why could not these rock carvings be found earlier? Exactly for the above reason: these petroglyphs in view of their large antiquities were under a thick layer of soil, and if not modern opportunities … After all, even the local population is practically knew nothing about all this. Rather, it will be said that out of 52 villages, in the vicinity of which cave paintings were found, only residents of five villages in India heard something about “paintings distant past “and even considered these places sacred (at least least, there was some information left by them ancestors).
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Currently, archaeologists, as they say, only touched this historical wealth of over 400 petroglyphs, on a full study of which local authorities have identified more than three million american dollars. That’s what teas says about all this Garge – Director of the Department of Archeology, Maharashtra:
Initial age determination of these cave drawings – 10 thousand years BC, but it is quite possible that they much older. Not only the huge age of petroglyphs is surprising and the almost unknown civilization that left them, but also the variety of drawings themselves, which depict people, animals, birds, all kinds of symbols and much more – you still have to to understand. It is surprising that among the drawings there are such animals that are simply not found in India, say, hippos or rhinos. Either in ancient times they lived in this territory, or people from Africa lived here …
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Scientists suggest that archaeologists of India have discovered the oldest petroglyphs of our planet, and civilization itself, which left us with this amazing “legacy” was clearly a community of hunters and anglers, because among the drawings no plants were found so far, which says that the people who lived here were far from farming and even gathering.
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India Petroglyphs Plants
