Ancient rock art stretching along an 8-mile wall has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest. The paintings were created approximately 11,800–12,500 years ago (i.redd.it)

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

has been discovered

OP, this discovery is from over four years ago. The Live Science article is from December 2020, and the open-access journal article was published March 2021.

"Colonisation and early peopling of the Colombian Amazon during the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene: New evidence from La Serranía La Lindosa" in Quarterly International by Morcote-Ríos et al., March 2021.

Please be careful about phrases like "has been discovered" which imply recency.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 3 days ago

Even before that, this is just when researchers were able to have access and time to publish. See my other comment.

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