Documenting the world's largest prehistoric rock art in South America - new study

We weren't the first to lay eyes on the engraving since it was carved into the hillside any number of centuries or millennia ago, not by a long shot. The Venezuelan archaeologist Jose Maria Cruxent even recorded it in his diaries in the 1940s - and there were certainly visitors before him.

The site of Cerro Pintado (Painted Hill), in the Venezuelan st