Who lived in the Cueva de las Manos?
Who lived in the Cueva de las Manos? The sequence is a long one: archaeological investigations have shown that the site was last inhabited around AD 700 by the possible ancestors of the first Tehuelche people of Patagonia. Why is Cueva de las Manos important? Along with the cave art at Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Brazil) (9250 BCE) and at the Toquepala Caves (Peru) (9500 BCE), the Cueva de las Manos is considered to be one of the most important prehistoric sites used by late Stone Age hunter-gatherer groups in South America, and to exemplify the pictographs and other rock...