Indonesia: Archaeologists find world s oldest animal cave painting
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14th January, 2021 11:11:11
Archaeologists have discovered the world s oldest known animal cave painting in Indonesia - a wild pig - believed to be drawn 45,500 years ago.
Painted using dark red ochre pigment, the life-sized picture of the Sulawesi warty pig appears to be part of a narrative scene.
The picture was found in the Leang Tedongnge cave in a remote valley on the island of Sulawesi.
It provides the earliest evidence of human settlement of the region. The people who made it were fully modern, they were just like us, they had all of the capacity and the tools to do any painting that they liked, said Maxime Aubert, the co-author of the report published in Science Advances journal.
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Archaeology experts have presented their discovery of a life-size pig painted on the walls of a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The image depicts a wild warty pig, which is a species still native to the island. More importantly, however, the discovery presents the earliest evidence of human settlement in the region and the oldest-known cave art in the world.
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