Oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia

[Eldorado]

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia.

The finding, described in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday, provides the earliest evidence of human settlement of the region.

Co-author Maxime Aubert, of Australia’s Griffith University, told AFP it was found on the island of Sulawesi in 2017 by doctoral student Basran Burhan, as part of surveys the team was carrying out with Indonesian authorities.

Full monty at the UK Guardian: Link

Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi

Science Advances

[Guyver]

Nice.  From cave paintings to supercomputers in 45,000 years.  That’s something.

[pallidin]

Estimated to be at least 45,500 years old...

 

[Vorg]

Those animals could really draw good.

[Eldorado]

 

[pallidin]

10 minutes ago, Eldorado said:

 

Oh. Sorry. Didn't know it was posted before.

[Still Waters]

52 minutes ago, pallidin said:

Oh. Sorry. Didn't know it was posted before.

The video you posted is interesting. I've merged the two threads so we can keep it.