Cueva de las Monas rock art conservation: INAH specialists clean and stabilize prehispanic and mission-era paintings at the site in Chihuahua, removing graffiti and strengthening sandstone to protect this national heritage.
Specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have completed the fourth field season of cleaning and stabilizing the graphic-rupestrian paintings at Cueva de las Monas, a cave site 60 kilometers north of Chihuahua city. Their work has yielded more precise documentation of existing motifs and uncovered previously unnoticed pictorial elements, officials said.
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