Rock Art Shows 260-Million-Year-Old Extinct Animal Rock art in southern Africa might depict long-extinct animals that walked the Earth 260 million years ago. A new paper argues that we should consider these images a form of Indigenous paleontology. 09/25/2024 - 5:59 am | View Link
South African Rock Art Depicts 260-Million-Year-Old Extinct Animal, Study Suggests Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago, even before Western archaeologists described the fossils. In a thought-provoking new ... 09/19/2024 - 6:28 pm | View Link
A Fossilized Creature May Explain a Puzzling Painting on a Rock Wall The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field. 09/18/2024 - 7:00 am | View Link
African Rock Art May Show Extinct Animal That Lived Millions Of Years Before Humans Dicynodonts lived long, long before any humans were around, but this insight shows the San people were sharply aware of extinct animals and a different time before their own. By digging into the ... 09/17/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link