5 000 cave paintings discovered in Mexico
Archeologists have found nearly 5 000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers in a northeastern Mexico mountain range where pre-Hispanic groups were not known to have existed.
The yellow, red, white and black paintings depict humans, deers, lizards and centipedes, suggesting that the groups hunted, fished and gathered food, according to the National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH).
They also painted religious, astronomical and abstract scenes and most of the images are very well preserved.
The archeologists were not able to date the 4 926 paintings, but they could conduct chemical and radiocarbon analyses to try to determine how old they are.
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[Photo courtesy Instituto Nacional de Arqueologia e Historia]