If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...

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In that sense, ancient art is a marker for this cognitive ... And scholars now talk excitedly about the prospect of analyzing cave paintings in Africa. “99.9 percent of rock art is undated ...

Direct dating of cave art is notoriously difficult ... Until more art or relevant archaeological evidence turns up for ancient African and Asian influences in Madagascar, we can only speculate.

Ever since exiting that cave, Townley Bassett has been ... decades visiting many of the thousands of ancient rock art sites that dot South Africa, in order to meticulously produce millimeter ...

Julien Benoit receives funding from the DSI-NRF African ... in their rock art. What’s often overlooked, though, is that their environment also contained artefacts from an ancient past: the ...

Somewhere in the Koesberg Mountains of South Africa, located deep in the arid Karoo region north-east of Cape Town, there’s an exquisite cave painting ... depiction of an ancient creature.

Some of the drawings have been dated to as early as 740BC Courtesy Reniel Rodríguez Ramos/University of Puerto Rico at Utuado A groundbreaking study of ancient cave paintings in Puerto Rico has ...

They also painted dinosaur footprints on cave walls ... Read more: An ancient San rock art mural in South Africa reveals new meaning Though we don't know for sure, there's a chance that the ...