Artists take inspiration from many sources. For the San people of South Africa, the spark that inspired some of their rock paintings may...
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The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific description of the dicynodont, a large mammal ancestor...
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The Karoo Basin Is Littered With Fossils From the Permian, Which May Have Inspired San Artisans When Creating a Rock Panel on the Great...
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The Horned Serpent panel at La Belle France in the Free State province of South Africa was painted by the San people at least two hundred...
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We argue that cave art is a form of cross-modality information transfer, in which acoustic signals are transformed into symbolic visual representations.
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The team from Wits University returned to a well-known ceiling panel in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains, armed with new knowledge about the...
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Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12500 years ago.
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For more than 12500 years, one of the world's largest collections of prehistoric rock paintings lay undiscovered in Colombia's Amazonian rainforest.
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The Golden State offers numerous ways to experience petroglyphs, pictographs, and other ancient forms of expression.
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Renowned anthropologist David Lewis-Williams (The Mind in the Cave) believes that the original designs and symbols for rock art came from inside the painter's...
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