The site is somewhat of a hot spot for significant cave painting discoveries. Previous finds on Sulawesi in recent years were dated to between 40,000 and 44,000 years old, which was then the ...

Until a few years ago, the oldest known figurative cave painting was a 21,000-year-old rock art panel in Lascaux, France, showing a bird-headed human charging a bison. But in 2019, archaeologists ...

Aubert was involved in the last record holder from 2019, which showed a hunting scene estimated to be nearly 44,000 years-old ... gap" in human art until the Indonesian cave paintings 50,000 ...

New evidence suggests cave art on the island of Sulawesi, believed to be the world’s oldest, dates to an astonishing 51,200 years ago.

The world’s oldest cave art has been uncovered in the Indonesian Islands of Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian scientists, showing an incredible 51,200-year-old painting of a wild pig and ...

The analysis found the layers that formed on top of the art are at least 51,200 years old, making it the oldest known reliably dated cave art image in the world, and the earliest narrative art found ...

The painting location is in Indonesia, on the Island of Sulawesi there is a cave where this painting is done on the cave's ceiling made of limestone. Khushi Thakur July 05, 2024 / 15:39 IST ...

To say the world has changed a lot in the past 51,000 years of human existence would ... which allowed them to deduce the work is at least 51,200 years old. To put the age of the cave paintings in ...

Until a few years ago, the oldest known figurative cave painting was a 21,000-year-old rock art panel in Lascaux, France, showing a bird-headed human charging a bison. But in 2019, archaeologists ...