12,000-yr-old rock painting found in NE China
Xinhua, June 12, 2018
Archaeologists have confirmed that a rock painting discovered in the Lesser Khingan Mountains in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province dates back 12,000 years.
Zhao Pingchun, researcher with the provincial institute of archeology, said that several images painted with ochre were discovered on a rock in the city Heihe. Preliminary studies showed that it is a scene of humans hunting.
Zhao said that archaeologists confirmed the images of three mammoths, which means the rock paintings were made before the extinction of the mammoth, or at least 12,000 years ago.
Meanwhile, archaeologists believe that the paintings were made by using fingers, not brushes, and with paints such as ochre.
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Images of Lesser Khingan Mountains at this link:
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Images of Heilongjiang Province in which the rock painting was found, located in the Lesser Khingan Mountains:
https://tinyurl.com/y8gcocbx
Images of Heihe, in Heilongjiang Province, in the Lesser Khingan Mountains in China.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yab2nypb
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