Cave paintings of extinct species

[thomasw100]

Very interesting article about cave paintings of extinct species by the people of the San at La Belle France (Free State Province, South Africa):

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0309908#pone.0309908.ref013

[DinoToyForum]

Very interesting article about cave paintings of extinct species by the people of the San at La Belle France (Free State Province, South Africa):

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0309908#pone.0309908.ref013

Interesting, but it's actually just a single cave painting of a single species - a possible dicynodont (I'm not totally convinced but it seems possible).

The paper says the artwork is from the Later Stone Age, which I had to look up as its a period of African prehistory I wasn't familiar with. I can't work out when it ended, but the painting is specifically dated as very recent, between 1821 and 1835, so the Later Stone Age must extend at least as recently as the early 19th century. It's fascinating to think that the San people of Africa were discovering fossil skeletons almost concurrent with Mary Anning's discoveries in England.