A paper published on January 29 in Rock Art Research says that a prehistoric rock, which to the untrained eye looks rather unassuming, may in fact be a 130,000 year-old “sand sculpture” animal carving ...

In a remarkable archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed what they believe to be a unique piece of human creativity — an ancient sand sculpture of a stingray. Initially mistaken for a ...

Archaeologists uncover a 130,000-year-old sand sculpture resembling a stingray on South Africa's coast, rewriting the timeline of human art. Predating previous records by 85,000 years, the find ...

A hunk of rock found on the South African coast may be the oldest human artwork representing another animal, according to a team of researchers that examined the stone. The aeolianite rock was found ...

A team of scientists theorize that a kite-shaped stone found on the coast of South Africa was intentionally shaped to resemble an endemic blue stingray species. The stone found along the Cape south ...

South Africa's Cape south coast offers many hints about how our human ancestors lived some 35,000 to 400,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch. These clues are captured in the dunes they once ...

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