Greenfields, I spoke too loose in your blog...
Regarding the tribal mud paintings of dinosaurs. My daughter in the East posted a photo of a bas relief from the temples of Cambodia--not Angkor Wat, but in the same neighborhood--that was made ~1190 AD. It is clearly, unmistakeably a stegosaurus, with the wide bony back plates. Well, 18th century Europeans are unlikely to have been the first to have dug up dinosaurs. There was a fascinating program on one of the history or science channels a while back about how certain misinterpreted fossil... Sign in to see full entry.