Indigenous paleontologists and their contributions to our shared human heritage have been largely under-recognized.
Knowledge of and interactions with fossils has been discovered in Indigenous societiesaround the globe.
Left: Photo of cave painting in South Africa (Photo: Julien Benoit, published byPLOS ONE,CC-BY 4.0), Right: Dicynodont skeleton, which the painting may depict (Photo: Ninjatacoshell onWikimedia,CC BY-SA 3.0)
Photo of the cave painting that may depict a dicynodont, taken on-site in the Karoo region of South Africa (Photo: Julien Benoit, published byPLOS ONE,CC-BY 4.0)
Dicynodont skeleton (Photo: Ninjatacoshell onWikimedia,CC BY-SA 3.0)
Additional images of the cave painting taken on-site in the Karoo region of South Africa (Photo: Julien Benoit, published byPLOS ONE,CC-BY 4.0)
Left: Contemporary illustrator’s rendering of dicynodont (Photo:Nobu TamuraviaWikimedia,CC BY-SA3.0,© N. Tamura), Right: Cave painting (Photo: Julien Benoit, published byPLOS ONE,CC-BY 4.0)
