If the rock art at La Belle France really is a dicynodont, it isn’t portrayed anatomically correct, other than the head. Instead, Benoit believes it was depicted as a rain animal — an important type ...

ancestors of today’s San or BaTwa, made rock art for thousands of years before African herders and farmers arrived from the north 2,000 years ago and European colonists followed by sea 350 years ...

Not all South African rock art ... the texts of the colonial record. These mountainous regions house many rock shelters with paintings of the traditional corpus of "San rock art' (antelope and ...

like those of the long-bodied animal depicted in roughly 200-year-old rock art by the region’s San hunter-gatherers, says paleontologist Julien Benoit. That painting appears among images drawn ...

Between 1821 and 1835, the San people of South Africa painted an exhilarating battle scene on a sandstone cliff called the Horned Serpent panel. Among the depicted ... San rock art and when ...