{"id":217141,"date":"2024-03-26T15:16:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/ancient-people-carved-mysterious-symbols-near-dinosaur-footprints\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:19:54","slug":"ancient-people-carved-mysterious-symbols-near-dinosaur-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/ancient-people-carved-mysterious-symbols-near-dinosaur-footprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/26101837\/SEI_197388674.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2424174 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1296\" height=\"865\" data-credit=\"Leonardo Troiano\/ National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, Brazil\" data-caption=\"Dinosaur footprints and rock carvings, both highlighted with dashed lines, at the Serrote do Letreiro site in Brazil\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Dinosaur footprints and rock carvings, both highlighted with dashed lines, at the Serrote do Letreiro site in Brazil<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Leonardo Troiano\/ National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, Brazil<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mysterious rock carvings found next to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/dinosaurs\/\">dinosaur<\/a> tracks in Brazil suggest ancient people discovered the footprints thousands of years ago and recognised them as meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>The Serrote do Letreiro site in Para\u00edba state features the footprints of theropod, sauropod and ornithopod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Epoch, between 145 million and 100 million years ago. Adjacent to these are numerous rock carvings, or petroglyphs, predominantly circular with radial lines and other abstract motifs.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2424152-ancient-people-carved-mysterious-symbols-near-dinosaur-footprints\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Dinosaur footprints and rock carvings, both highlighted with dashed lines, at the Serrote do Letreiro site in Brazil Leonardo Troiano\/ National Institute of Historic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334002,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217141\/revisions\/334002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}