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Rock ArtSite Name: Cueva la Conga
Country: Nicaragua
NOTE: This site is 15.44 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Jinotega  Nearest Village: Jinotega
Latitude: 13.942000N  Longitude: 85.13W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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no data Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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21st century science on prehistoric art by coldrum on Thursday, 18 June 2009
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21st century science on prehistoric art

Most chemists don't have to go to the lengths Ruth Ann Armitage has gone to answer questions of science.

In January, the Eastern Michigan University assistant professor, her husband Dan Fraser, California archeologist Suzanne Baker and a team of others bounced through rainforest and jungle - by truck and mule-back - to reach remote northern Nicaragua to date prehistoric cave paintings.

Armitage is an analytical chemist who uses a process called plasma chemical oxidation to carbon-date ancient drawings. She was able to obtain samples of the charcoal and the paint from the drawings and brought the samples back to her lab at EMU.
Ruth Ann Armitage

Once she's able to date the art, the scientists will have a better sense of who might have done the paintings. They'll then begin piecing together the prehistory of the archaeologically uncharted territory.

The age of the charcoal should be known within a week.

"Not a lot of chemists do this stuff," Armitage said. "And it was interesting, being in this place where so few foreigners had ever been."

Etched in charcoal and reddish paint, the paintings show handprints, shapes and spirals, dots, an upside-down childlike figure and other images. Other art in the cave, tentatively believed to be a ritual cave, includes figures and faces carved in stalactites and stalagmites, called speleotherms.

Baker has done other work in Nicaragua. She made her first trip to the cave, called Cueva la Conga, in 2006 after a Mennonite missionary living in the area contacted her about it, she said.

"There is zero archaeological work that has been done in this area," said Baker, who is based in Oakland. "So we're not sure prehistorically who was living there. ... This is very ground-level research we are doing because we just have zero information."
Photo courtesy of Ruth Ann ArmitageEMU professor Ruth Ann Armitage is using a form of carbon dating to determine the age of these paintings, located in a remote limestone cave in northern Nicaragua.

According to Baker's Web site, Culturelink.info, ritual cave use among pre-Columbian people is well-documented archaeologically. Caves were sacred spaces, points of entry to the underworld, and often associated with human and agricultural fertility, and especially with rain.

The cave, which is situated on private land, has already been vandalized. Armitage and Baker hope their work will draw attention to the important of archeology and preservation, and will help prevent further destruction.

And, they hope it adds to the body of archaeological knowledge in a country with few resources for such research, and a field in which little funding is available in the United States, either.

"It comes down to funding what's more important - archaeology or people having food," she said.

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/04/eastern_michigan_university_pr_1.html
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