Home to one of the most spectacular global rock art traditions, the Serrania de la Lindosa rock paintings in Colombia, as old as 12,500 years, contains tens and thousands of paintings, including humans and animals morphing into each other. International archaeologists there have been working with Indigenous elders, leaders, and ritual specialists, to interpret what their ancestors left behind. Transcending the Metaphysical: Alternating Between Realms What they’ve learnt transcends the meta-physical, and further cements the loss of Indigenous wisdom, knowledge, and tradition, that have suffered at the hands of colonialism. These accounts, along with material research, has pointed to the art transcending spiritual realms, transformation of bodies, and a continuum in which human and non-human worlds collide. In fact, to imagine that it is some kind of a literal record of human engagement with the environment around is doing it great disservice. Published in the special issue of Advances in Rock Art Studies, archaeologists from the University of Exeter have been working in the region for the past six years, primarily through the European Research Council funded LASTJOURNEY project. Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient WritingsNewsHistory & ArchaeologyAncient PlacesAmericasRead Later