Recent work in Artigas province, close to the areas with prehistoric engravings, indicates the presence of pottery one thousand six hundred years before Christ. That is when Mycenae stopped being a limited village to increasingly fortify itself, or while the majority of the Pacific islands did not show human presence yet. There, they developed elaborated forms of ceramics, additioned by an even more complex and varied decoration. Appendixes with representations of the fauna, decorated in a three-dimensional way the edges of plates and vessels. Meanwhile to the north, other ceramic forms imitated birds to be used in the ceremonies of introduction to altered states of consciousness.
Several investigations point to explain that particular cultural phenomenon.
Since about two thousand five hundred years ago, simple as well as complex forms, predominantly geometrical and of red color, were carefully painted on hundreds of stone blocks on the central provinces of Uruguay. To the Northwest, research still continues in order to documentate groups of engravings that start more than six thousand years ago, reflecting a permanent artistic activity that continues until the year 800 of the present era. Curiously, and almost at the same time, from the south another invader group appeared, navigators too. As the one above, they also chose to establish themselves along the mouths of the rivers or prominent harbors. Instead of canoes, they moved on ships that brought some strange extended cloth to help on the displacement.