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A report by Jim Wyss for The Miami Herald. For more than a century, the fist-sized rocks etched with enigmatic patterns were ignored by academics and shunned by cultural power brokers. Discovered in Puerto Rico in the 1880s by a priest who was convinced they were a link to one of the Lost Tribes of Israel,…

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Sarah Derouin (Geological Society of America) writes about a recent study of cave art in Puerto Rico carried out by geophysicist Angel Acosta-Colon (UPR-Arecibo Campus) and archaeologist Reniel Rodríguez (UPR-Utuado Campus). In the karstic caves of Puerto Rico, cave art paints the rock…