The San people in South Africa painted animals that related to their cultural beliefs, but were most likely inspired by ...

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.

A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 ... "humanity's oldest drawing" on a fragment of rock in South Africa, dated at 73,000 years old.

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But the most impressive discovery was the more than 800 petroglyphs carved on the west, north, and south walls, depicting human figures, animals, boats, and abstract symbols whose interpretation is ...

I've been in the mountains hunting different rare types of stone and ochre that Indigenous people have used here for ...

Who could have predicted that touring cave paintings across Spain and France would be just the boost our relationship needed? When Leo, my husband of 12 years, and I thought about where we wanted ...

the Cave of the Hands, an official UNESCO World Heritage Site stands as one of the most significant cultural sites in South America. "I felt the presence of very ancient people, by the painting of ...

the unexpected discovery of personal ornaments and art older than 70,000 years ago — shell beads and engraved ochre — at Blombos Cave on the southern Cape coast of South Africa, initiated a ...