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Cave painting in the southern areas of South America may have started 8,200 years ago, several millennia earlier than previously thought. The cave art, located in Patagonia, Argentina, was thought to previously be only several thousand years old, but new research shows that some of this cave art was created during the late Holocene epoch (11,700 years ago – present). Ten Mysterious Examples of Rock Art from the Ancient World DNA Analysis Reveals Surprising South American Migration Patterns What’s In A Comb? With nearly 900 human figures, animals, and abstract designs painted, the scientists studied one of the cave’s most puzzling motifs – a comb-like pattern, which has been dated the earliest of them all.While the significance of the comb