Archaeologists have discovered what they claim to be the oldest example of figurative art made by human hands. An ochre painting of pigs, found on a cave wall in Indonesia, has been dated to be at ...

World’s Oldest Cave Art Discovered, And An Outline Of A Hand ...

A team of international scientists has uncovered ancient hand and foot prints that may upend our understanding of early cave art. The experts believe that the impressions identified near Quesang ...

The world’s oldest known figurative artwork has been discovered in a cave in Indonesia – an endearing image of a warty pig. Archaeologists working on the site on the island of Sulawesi said the cave ...

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The oldest known cave painting on Earth is not a charging bison in Europe but a reddish pig on a limestone wall in Indonesia, part of a vivid scene that pushes the origins of storytelling far deeper ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed ...

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Archaeologists have found the largest grouping of cave art drawings made by Native Americans prior to the arrival of Spanish explorers. Scientists took thousands of high-tech photos to scan the ...

On the ceiling of a California cave, a red pinwheel-shaped drawing likely depicts a psychoactive plant called datura. Researchers recently found chewed-up lumps of datura stuffed in the cave's ceiling ...