“Ancient Mysteries Unearthed: What Do This 12,000-Year-Old Rock Carvings Reveal About a Vanished Civilization?”
“We walked thousands of kilometers,” Risbood told the BBC. “People started sending photographs to us and we even enlisted schools in our efforts to find them. We made students ask their grandparents and other village elders if they knew about any other engravings. This provided us with a lot of valuable information.”
All in all, it’s now clear that 52 villages in the region contain petroglyphs, though only five of them knew that the carvings existed previously. Those that were aware of the images considered them to be holy and some even worshipped them.
Now, with so many more petroglyphs having come to light, researchers hope to learn more about the mysterious peoples that created them long ago.
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