Ancient Mystery Solved: How Human Blood Preserved China’s Huashan Rock Art for Millennia
According to the researchers, the blood collected after childbirth may have been used by the painters not just for its chemical properties, but also as a material symbolic of fertility, ancestry, and regeneration.
The use of blood also changes researchers’ understanding of the impressiveness of the Huashan paintings. For years, the paintings have been lauded mainly as a labor-intensive achievement, one that required many workers who hiked high up the sides of dangerous cliffs.
While the manpower required for the paintings is still impressive, the researchers stated in their study that “these findings provide new insights into the creation of prehistoric rock art, showing that it was a technically intensive project rather than a labor-intensive one.”
Indeed, the new analysis of the rock art showed that it took great technical knowledge and understanding of how natural materials reacted with each other chemically in order to create a long-lasting paint.
In fact, the paint was so impressively engineered that, 2,000 years later, archaeologists are still able to marvel at its sophistication.
After reading about the Huashan Rock Art, see inside a cave in Turkey that’s filled with more than 100 prehistoric paintings. Then, learn about how the chainsaw was first invented for an operation related to childbirth.
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