Argentine, Chilean and an American scientists manage to date the paintings in a cave in Patagonia. The date, published in 'Science', precedes previous records by several millennia.

The cave, located in the north of the Argentine province of Neuquén, has more than 440 motifs painted with diluted pigments and applied with fingers or some utensil. The drawings are mainly geometric shapes printed on rocks at different moments of artistic creation separated by hundreds of years. The scientists suggest that “standardized pictorial events” spanned more than 130 generations in the Patagonian cave.