An archaeologist has tracked down greater than 20 rock artwork websites in south-eastern Venezuela adorned with evocative geometric designs that will date again a number of thousand years. The pictograms and petroglyphs supply a uncommon glimpse into the tradition of people that lived within the forested highlands that now make up Canaima Nationwide Park, lengthy earlier than the arrival of Europeans.

José Miguel Pérez-Gómez of Simón Bolívar College in Caracas, Venezuela, has collaborated for years with the Indigenous Pemón neighborhood to doc the distant artwork, which he…