Ibrahim Sawal's article titled "World’s Oldest Painting of Animals Discovered in an Indonesian Cave" details a recent discovery that has unearthed amazing anthropological development. Indonesian cave paintings depict what potentially could be the oldest known images of animals on the planet. They date back to at least 45,000 years ago. The paintings were found in 2017 by Adam Brumm at Griffith University, Australia, and his team.
“I was struck dumb. It’s one of the most spectacular and well-preserved figurative animal paintings known from the whole region and it just immediately blew me away” Brumm states.
The paintings show three pigs is more than a meter long and were painted with a red ochre pigment. Sawal writes, "They appear to be Sulawesi warty pigs, a short-legged wild boar that is endemic to the island and is characterised by its distinctive facial warts."
“This species was of great importance to early hunter-gatherers in Sulawesi,” says Brumm.
Link to the article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2264793-worlds-oldest-painting-of-animals-discovered-in-an-indonesian-cave/
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