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The Bradshaw Foundation, in conjunction with Harry W. Crosby, presents this documentary film on the Great Murals rock art paintings of the Baja California peninsula of northern Mexico.
1976 marked the beginning of an odyssey in Baja California; the photographer Harry W. Crosby was commissioned to provide photographs for a publication to commemorate California's bicentennial. He was given the task of following the route of the 1769 Portolá Serra expedition. One expedition led to many, and over the next few years Harry W. Crosby and his team would ride more than 1,000 miles in Baja California, on mule-back and on trails far from the road, to its remotest areas where he would encounter the spectacular rock art of this region. Over-shadowed by the more famous Upper Palaeolithic cave art of Europe such as Chauvet, Lascaux and Altamira, the Great Murals of Baja California, as they are now known, rival their European counterparts in terms of antiquity, diversity, sophistication, and symbolism. Baja California’s Great Murals represent one of the largest concentrations of rock art in the Americas, with some of the largest rock art panels the world has yet discovered, its individual painted pictograph figures of humans and animals on a scale almost unparalleled, defining it as a treasure house of world rock art.
Recognized by UNESCO with World Heritage status, the Sierra de San Francisco region on the Baja California peninsula contains the largest cache of rock art, and at its heart lies the most painted part of the entire range of the Great Murals; the two caves that define the focus of this painted phenomenon - La Cueva Pintada and Cueva de las Flechas - sit opposite each other in long shallow caves hundreds of feet above the Arroyo de San Pablo. Most of the walls and ceilings exhibit well-preserved cave paintings, or pictographs, of women, men, beasts, birds and sea mammals. La Cueva Pintada is indeed ‘The Painted Cave’.
The Bradshaw Foundation has carefully restored the original 1970’s cine film footage which has remained unseen for over 40 years. The documentary film provides a rare opportunity to follow Harry Crosby and his companions as they rode over 600 miles crisscrossing Baja California’s vast landscape of mountains, deserts and arroyos.
Available on DVD and as a digital download, the documentary film BAJA CALIFORNIA: In Search of Painted Caves provides a cinematic window into the America’s pre-Columbian past.
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Music acknowledgements
"Americana" "Drone" "Pale Rider" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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