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Argh - just found this:

"Klipkraal 9 consists of a scatter of small boulders widely dispersed around a very large central dolerite boulder on the flat western plateau north-east of Site 8 at an elevation of 1 060 m contour. There are almost no tools and few grinding patches, but there is a roughly circular house foundation and western-style crockery.

There are 20 or more engraved rocks including ostrich, eland and a well executed pecked outline human figure. One rock has an incised equid that has only stripes on the head and hindquarters. It may represent the extinct quagga.

One exceptional engraving at Klipkraal is of a 99 cm long large bovine that may represent the extinct Giant Buffalo, Pelorovis antiquus."



First recorded by noted Northern Cape archaeologist Dr. Gerhard Fock in the 1960s, the Giant buffalo became extinct at some point between 2 000 – 12 000 years ago and this is a rare representation of an extinct animal in Bushman rock art. The grooved lines used to make the outline of this animal are most unusual. Below the buffalo is a similar kudu-like animal. There is also a more recent ostrich and two rubbed patches, a few geometrics and a partially legible sentence in Dutch. "

Anybody heard anything about? - I sure wouldn't mind to see them resurected Smiler.

Source: Nelsport Rock Art
 
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Probably died of a neck ache.


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No really guys.. it was thiiiis big. It was huge. No issues hitting the record book. Let me draw it for you.
 
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That is really not very hard to imagine, I saw a water buff skull in an old station house in Queensland that would have went very close to 7 feet tip to tip.
If not a little more actually, my arm reach is 6'2" and I lacked 6" from touching either tip with arms outstretched.
You all may have seen many such, it looked like a freak to me.


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Trophy fee on that varmint would be astronomical, probably as much as an Irish Elk...


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A year or so ago Desert Ram and I visited briefly at the Florisbad museum near Soutpan in the Free State where the partly fossilised horns of an extinct buffalo was on display. IIRC what we saw there makes the one depicted look like a youngster. My arm span is also about 6'2", but I lacked several feet (?) from both sides to touch the tips! I will go back there soon and find out more, like if the species is also Pelorovis antiquus.

Wish I lived 100,000 years ago, but with a magical decent .500NE available!

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This is a picture of Mrs Blacktailer at the Olduvai(sp?) Gorge in the Serengeti. These fossils were dug up by the Leakys.



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