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Cave paintings · Mysteria

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Cave paintings

Every place in the atlas labelled cave paintings.

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Countries: 9
World Heritage: 9

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🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art

Pedra Furada Rock Art

Pleistocene to Early Holocene · Nordeste Tradition (early Amerind)

Capivara arch shelter heart of 1,150-painting Nordeste tradition with pre-Clovis debate hearths.