Strange Cave Drawings Of Unknown Beings And Animals In Japan Puzzle Historians
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Studies of ancient cave drawings are significant because these images provide us with knowledge of our ancestors’ beliefs. Often artists of the past had to crawl through narrow tunnels to access small caves where they left astonishing depictions for future generations.
What motivated our ancestors so much they felt it was so important to access narrow caves and produce paintings on the walls of creatures we cannot recognize today?
Our journey takes us to Japan where we find several caves that have hundreds of drawings of unfamiliar beings. These particular cave drawings have long puzzled archaeologists and historians. There are some speculations but it’s still unknown what ancient civilization created these remarkable cave drawings.
These very old depictions are also a mystery because it’s difficult to understand who or what they depict. Let us take a closer look at these precious prehistoric sources trying to comprehend what our ancestors wanted to tell us.
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