Researchers uncover ‘world’s oldest artwork’ in Indonesian cave

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An Indonesian cave painting that depicts a prehistoric hunting scene could be the world's oldest figurative artwork dating back nearly 44,000 years, a discovery that points to an advanced artistic ...

Cave art on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, was painted 44,000 years ago and is the oldest known to date. Photo: GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY/AFP / RATNO SARDI

Using dating technology, the team at Australia’s Griffith University said it had confirmed that the limestone cave painting dated back at least 43,900 years during the Upper Palaeolithic period. “I mean, we’ve seen hundreds of rock art sites in this region, but we’ve never seen anything like a hunting scene,” he added.For many years, cave art was thought to have emerged from Europe, but Indonesian paintings have challenged that thinking.

The human-animal figures, known in mythology as therianthropes, suggested that early humans in the region were able to imagine things that did not exist in the world, the researchers said. “ may be regarded not only as the earliest dated figurative art in the world but also as the oldest evidence for the communication of a narrative in Palaeolithic art,” researchers said.

 

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