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Letter: Rock art, a picture book for the kids

Published 12 March 2018

From Colin Sutton, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia

Jake Buehler's report on rock art in Saudi Arabia is premised on the idea that it tells us what animals lived there (10 February, p 8). But the artists may have been drawing African animals because they or their forebears came from Africa, and they aimed to preserve the memory for their children.

Issue no. 3169 published 17 March 2018

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