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Sydney, Australia, Jan 14 (efe-epa).- The oldest figurative cave painting in the world is the image of a pig painted 45,500 years ago in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi discovered by a group of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists, as reported Thursday by scientific sources.
“As far as we know, the painting of the Sulawesi pig that we found in the limestone cave of Leang Tedongnge is currently the oldest figurative art work in the world,” said Adam Brumm, one of the leaders of the scientific team of Griffith University and Indonesia’s archaeological research center.
The image replaces the previous oldest image, another painting discovered in 2020 on the same island by Brumm’s team that depicted an abstract hunting scene from 43,900 years ago.
A team of Griffith University archaeologists has shared in the discovery of what may be the world's oldest known cave painting, dating back to at least.