Eerie Figures With Giant Heads Found Painted in a Rock Shelter in Tanzania

A diagram of the artwork.
M. Grzelczyk, Antiquity, 2021

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So I guess that must be where the Irish came from.

Dang kids just will not stop drawing on the walls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC87WUEOSUk

(and the inability to pronounce “th” syndrome is a scourge as well)

It’s a shame black girls don’t wear their hair like this anymore. This is hot

Everywhere I look, pumpkin atrocities!!

Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo?

I hear they had a hard time getting a taxi.

Too easy to grab in a fight, probably. Gotta have those break-away extensions.

Or ancestors of Mr Mackey on South Park.

bare skeletons look like figuress with giant heads

Skeletons and fossils of extinct megafauna make some think giants used to walk the Earth.

Did Erich von Däniken know about this?

Ego problems have been around longer than we thought.

Probably why they lived in caves, big big doors.