"This work supports that the first inhabitants of southern Africa, the San hunter-gatherers, discovered fossils, interpreted them, and integrated them into their rock art and belief system." ...

“This work supports that the first inhabitants of southern Africa, the San hunter-gatherers, discovered fossils, interpreted them and integrated them in their rock art and belief system.

This art depicts people and nature over many thousands of years. Ancestors of the San hunter-gatherers believed that their creator lowered all creatures down from the sky into Tsodilo―people ...

The oldest known examples of these tiny, Cheerio-like decorations, found in rock shelters in Tanzania, have been dated to around 50,000 years ago, while similar creations are still made by San ...

Archeologists have decoded the markings on 20,000-year-old cave paintings created by Ice Age hunter-gatherers. The results show that early humans used writing to convey information far earlier ...