This won’t look like much because honestly you have to learn to look at these images incised or pecked or abraded into rock something like 22,000 years ago on the banks of the Coa River. This one, horses and goats, has intrigued me for a year, since I first saw it in the Jean Clottes Cave Art book, a visual museum of rock art. This is rock 6 at Penascosa. Reader, I cried. The perfect curve of the horse’s rump, its lovely face. We had the best guide, Barbara, and one fellow explorer, Maria (from Belgium), for two tours, Canada do Inferno and Penascosa. Rain was sporadic; lightning too. Tomorrow we go on a 3 hour adventure to a 3rd site.
Reader, have I waited too long? When I saw the current work site where archaeologists are looking for more examples of incised portable art, I wanted nothing more than to drop everything to live near this river and feel the gaze of the horses, smell the wild lavender, hear the wild distant thunder. Wish you were here.
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...Theresa Kishkan 