Creativity and the Indigenous
In my journey through looking at the past, I have found that visualization is a great part of our legacy. This is the case not only with the Indigenous Peoples Migrations out of Africa (forced or otherwise) of 500 years ago, but also with the preceding migrations that peopled the rest of the world.

We love to paint and draw!

We can see this with the glyphs of Ancient Nubia, Ancient Mali, Ancient Egypt, and so on.


http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/List_of_Scripts.html

The above link is an example of writing systems throughout the continent of Africa. While those glyphs and writing systems are not directly drawings, they do stem from it.