Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by ...

While the cave art paint has faded, this is what the mythical creature painted on a rock-shelter wall in South Africa looked like. J. Benoit/PLOS ONE 2024 This black-and-white drawing reconstructs ...

In the rugged landscapes of South Africa, ancient rock art panels created by the San people—one of the region’s earliest inhabitants—have long intrigued researchers. Among these works is a ...

A 2024 study posits that a mysterious animal found in San rock art is actually a reconstruction of a dicynodont.

A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived more than 200 million years ago and went extinct long before the appearance of the first ...

In 2000, President Thabo Mbeki’s office approached the Rock Art Research Institute because they wanted an indigenous rock art image to grace the coat of arms of the new South Africa.