Updated Jan 17, 2021 | 12:33 IST
The painting of the Sulawesi warty pig measures 53 by 21 inches. It was painted using a dark red ochre pigment. Earliest known cave art by humans found in Indonesia | Photo Credit: AFP
A painting of a life-sized pig found in Indonesia has been dated to nearly 45,000-years-old, making it the oldest cave art known to man.
The discovery was made by archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia. who described their findings in the journal Science Advances. According to the study, the art shows a Sulawesi warty pig.
“The world’s oldest surviving representational image of an animal,” the researchers claimed in their paper.