Comments on: Australian cave painting could be 40 kya, depicts megafauna https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/31/australian-ave-painting-could/ Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: jjoensuu https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/31/australian-ave-painting-could/#comment-518518 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:44:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/31/australian-ave-painting-could/#comment-518518 “two emu-like birds with their necks outstretched”…

…so in other words some animals with roundish bottom half and long necks…

How do we “know” they are not some sort of dinosaur instead?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/31/australian-ave-painting-could/#comment-518517 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:38:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/31/australian-ave-painting-could/#comment-518517 Marktime, I have seen the objects the man to whom you refer was wearing. They were in the Cape Town natural history museum. I believe they have been moved to the art museum.

]]> By: marktime https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/31/australian-ave-painting-could/#comment-518516 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:05:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/31/australian-ave-painting-could/#comment-518516 Nonetheless there is an account of the last San artist who was murdered during a period when the KhoiSan were hunted as vermin. The story goes that he wore a waist belt to which were attached springbok horns containing coloured powders. A tale that leaves me incredibly saddened.

And there is also San art that depicts the Boer oxwagons and European figures.

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