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History Fuzz films rock shelters on the Bogotá savanna, hills that once stood as islands in a cold age lake. Butchered mastodon, horse, turtle, and armadillo remains are placed in the late cold window, about 12,900 to 11,700 years ago, and the film asks whether the carvings are a temple older than Gobekli Tepe. Since 2019 the team says it has made three surveys without excavation, with archaeologists, artists, and a drone. On camera they show a red pictogram, cut marks some compare with tallies, and stones read as turtles, a mammoth like head, and a coiled snake. Holes are called places for liquid offerings. One voice argues that people filed as simple foragers were watching the sun and the moon and keeping a calendar. The sculptures are said to mirror animals brought by boat and cut up on a former shore. This is the team’s case that the carving is deliberate and ritual, not a finished dig report.
Key points
- The shelters sit on former islands in a glacial lake on the Bogotá savanna.
- Butchered cold age animals are part of the dating picture the film sketches.
- Three private surveys without excavation are the basis of the footage.
- Marks in the cave are read as possible records, and one speaker infers watching of the sun and moon.
- Carved stones are identified in the field as reptiles, a long nosed head, and a coiled snake.
- Holes are interpreted as places for liquid offerings.
- The sculptures are said to echo animals brought ashore and cut up beside the old lake.
Short quotes
since 2019 we have conducted three privately funded non-intrusive site surveys with anthropologists archaeologists artists and drone
History Fuzz, History Fuzz on a Bogotá savanna rock shelter
The narrator says the carved hills were looked over three times without digging, with specialists and a drone. Watch at 4:30
gatherers actually had an advanced form of communication so much so that they were monitoring the courses of the Sun
History Fuzz, History Fuzz on a Bogotá savanna rock shelter
He treats foragers as people who followed the sun’s road and had a developed way to share news. Watch at 13:11
there's a triangular cave that's been cut into the back of this there's another offering hole at the top there
History Fuzz, History Fuzz on a Bogotá savanna rock shelter
On the stone they take for a snake, he points out a cut hollow and another hole for gifts. Watch at 21:09
definitely a serpent so striking it's just incredible so we're all in agreement that this is a coiled serpent yes that's
History Fuzz, History Fuzz on a Bogotá savanna rock shelter
The people on site agree the coiled shape in front of them is a serpent. Watch at 30:02
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