🏛️ Cueva de las Manos, Alto Rio Pinturas

Argentina · Americas · Cultural · 47.20°S, 70.50°W

Cueva de las Manos is a cave and complex of rock art sites in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 163 km (101 mi) south of the town of Perito Moreno. It is named for the hundreds of paintings of hands stenciled, in multiple collages, on the rock walls. The art was created in several waves between 7,300 BC and AD 700, during the Archaic period of pre-Columbian South America. The age of the paintings was calculated from the remains of bone pipes used for spraying the paint on the wall of the cave to create the artwork, radiocarbon dating of the artwork, and stratigraphic dating.

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Quick facts

Country	Argentina
Continent / region	Americas
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	47.20°S, 70.50°W · view on map

Cueva de las Manos, Alto Rio Pinturas is a cultural World Heritage site in Argentina, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Cueva de las Manos, Alto Rio Pinturas was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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