Speaking in Spanish and the Indigenous languages of Desana, Tukano, and Nukak, elders told archaeologists how the idea of transformation was a key theme throughout the art, including humans ...

But wavy lines in the rock carvings are also strikingly similar to art made in the 1970s by the Tucano (also spelled Tukano) people indigenous to the Amazon rainforest in Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador.

It is thought that the people who made the petroglyphs were from ... The engravings are similar to the ones that were made by the Tukano, an ancient group that resided in what is now Colombia.