Dated Rock Engravings from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa

@article{Thackeray1981DatedRE,
  title={Dated Rock Engravings from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa},
  author={Anne Thackeray and J. Francis Thackeray and Peter Beaumont and John C. Vogel},
  journal={Science},
  year={1981},
  volume={214},
  pages={64 - 67}
}
Radiocarbon dates associated with engraved stones from sealed archeological deposits at Wonderwerk Cave in the northern Cape Province indicate that rock engraving in South Africa is at least 10,000 years old. 
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