Ancient Art Galleries in Colombia

Helen Pugh
8 min readApr 3, 2023

Once upon a time, horses and giant ground sloths roamed South America. There were even animals similar to elephants. And that’s not all. Long ago, human beings got to see these awesome creatures. They respected and worshipped them.

We’re going to take a look at people who lived in what we now call Colombia at least 13,000 years ago, which was during the last Ice Age that ended 11,700 years ago. We’ll also briefly look at another group who may have lived in Colombia at least 20,000 years ago.

Okay, but how do we know that these ancient Amazonians saw ground sloths and horses, then? Well, it’s…

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