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Question about that cave art film I dismissed for years, a park ranger in Cortez got me to look again
I used to think those documentaries about cave paintings in France were just hype, mostly because the one I saw in high school made it look like a slideshow with dramatic music. Last month I camped near Cortez, Colorado and got talking to a ranger named Dale at the visitor center, and he mentioned the painted panels at a site down the road were done in at least three separate sessions over what he figured was generations. He pulled out a laminated photo and pointed at the overlap lines, where newer figures were painted right over the older ones, and said something like "somebody came back 40 years later to add to it." That detail stuck with me more than any museum display. I went home and read up on how researchers date pigments and count the layers, and now I see it as a record of repeat visits instead of one big art moment. Curious if anyone here has seen layered panels up close and whether the overlaps read as clearly in person as they did in his photo.
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