Recovering archaic art

1992/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Giza zientziak

The image that appears in the image may belong to an arched hunter and is the first artistic footprint found in archaic North America.

The image was on a whale vertebra and a group of French and Canadian archaeologists found it on the west coast of Victoria Island. In the excavated area there was the Thule civilization. The thules spread to North America from the year 1000.

Some of the discoveries are images of whales and pottery products. Since no more whale bones have appeared in this place, it is believed that its inhabitants were seal hunters and that in the images made they explained their relationship with the whale. These images are considered between 1380 and 1450.

This group of researchers has advanced their research teaching people called Inuit to preserve ancestral remains, since all the discovered works will be given to the inhabitants of the island.