Despite spanning 175 generations, the Pecos River Style (PRS) rock art maintained strict iconographic rules—black paint first, followed by red, yellow and white—demonstrating a structured visual language rather than random decoration.
The murals align with pan-indigenous beliefs, such as layered universes and portals between worlds. A Huichol shaman recognized the figures in the 2000s, confirming continuity with modern indigenous spiritual traditions.
The artists were nomadic hunter-gatherers, unknown by tribal name today, but their work reveals advanced cosmological thought predating agriculture and urbanization, challenging conventional narratives about the origins of complex religious ideas.
The murals serve as a "living library" of indigenous knowledge, preserving a cosmology that influenced later Mesoamerican civilizations (e.g., Aztecs) and remains spiritually significant to contemporary indigenous communities.
For more than 4,000 years – spanning an astonishing 175 generations – Indigenous Americans painted elaborate rock murals along what is now the U.S.-Mexico border, conveying a sophisticated cosmological worldview that persists in modern indigenous cultures.
A groundbreaking study published in Science Advances reveals that the Pecos River style (PRS) rock art, found in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwestern Texas and northern Mexico, remained remarkably consistent in technique and symbolism for millennia, despite major environmental and technological changes....<<<Read More>>>....