Rock art located in present-day South Africa might be the key to discovering an extinct animal species from more than 200 ...

San rock paintings in South Africa likely depict extinct dicynodonts, showcasing early local engagement in paleontology ...

Researchers have proposed that a mysterious cave painting in South Africa’s Free State Province may depict a dicynodont, an extinct mammalian ancestor. The painting, known as the Horned Serpent ...

Scientists say they have discovered humanity's oldest known drawing on a small fragment of rock in South Africa. The drawing ... like a hashtag - in Blombos Cave on the southern coast.

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ... But some researchers argue that its traces can be seen in African sites that date back to 100,000 years ago or even ...

The latest discoveries made due to new technology show that the population history of southernmost Africa is very different ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 ...

In South Africa, a hashtag-like doodle created 73,000 years ago is believed to be the oldest known drawing. Cave paintings as old as those found in Europe have been found in Indonesia, raising new ...

Society Grant The research on early art in South Africa and cave art in Spain was funded in part by your National Geographic Society membership.

Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest ...

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