Baja’s Great Mural Rock Art Vastly Older Than Previously Believed
New Study Pushes Back Age of Mexico’s Cave Paintings 11,000 Years to End of Last Ice Age and Arrival of First Humans on Baja Peninsula
5 min readApr 17, 2023
In what is likely one of Mexico’s most important archeological findings of recent years, the Great Mural cave paintings of Central Baja have been shown to be far older — by at least 10,000 years — than previously believed.