South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, ...

One of the most fascinating ways to do so is by visiting its incredible rock art sites, where the ancient San (Bushmen) people left behind intricate paintings and engravings that offer a glimpse ...

The Drakensberg is home to one of the world’s most extensive collections of San rock art, with over 30,000 preserved ... symbolised by animals like the eland. Publicly accessible sites include ...

The San had a profound knowledge of their environment, which they masterfully depicted in their rock art. What's often overlooked, though, is that their environment also contained artefacts from ...

If the San could identify the fossilized skulls of dicynodonts as belonging to once alive animals, it is possible that their tusked faces could have contributed to their rock art." Benoit became ...

it could help to explain the imagery in some other San rock art, Benoit concluded. Read the original scholarly article about this research in PLOS ONE. For more on animal depictions in San rock ...

Complicating the exercise is that rock art paintings were often painted over by the San people at later dates ... over a stunning painting of a leaping eland, a type of antelope.

Rock art made by the San in Sub-Saharan Africa stretches back ... has scrawled their name over a stunning painting of a leaping eland, a type of antelope. “Graffiti begets more graffiti ...