Robert Plot, an English naturalist, became the first to document the dinosaur bones in his work entitled "The Natural History of Oxfordshire" in 1676. Over the next two centuries, many English scientists dominated the field of dinosaur paleontology.
In their work, scientists emphasize the Bolahla archaeological site in Lesotho, which dates back to the Stone Age. This site is believed to have been inhabited by the Khoesan and Basotho communities from around 1100-1700 AD. The area is located between a series of hills formed by solid sediment layers trapped beneath a desert resembling the Sahara about 180-200 million years ago, when dinosaurs first roamed the earth.
This Lesotho region is known as the place where the species Massospondylus carinatus, a long-necked dinosaur with a small head measuring about 4 to 6 meters, breeds. Massospondylus bone fossils were found in the area and were inhabited by people during the Middle Ages.
In 1990, archaeologists in Bolahla discovered the fossilized finger of a Massospondylus that had been transferred into a cave. Although no fossilized skeleton was visible on the cave walls, it is estimated that someone brought the fossil into the cave. The reasons could be diverse, perhaps out of curiosity, to make jewelry or toys, or for traditional healing ceremonies.
However, there is no certainty about the exact time when the fossil was brought into the cave. If the cave was used between the years 1100 and 1700, then it is likely that this dinosaur bone was found around 500 years before Robert Plot.
Source: Live Science
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