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(40,367 posts) Fri Dec 13, 2019, 10:25 AM Dec 2019

Sulawesi art: Animal painting found in cave is 44,000 years old

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50754303

A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old.

The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears and possibly ropes.

Some researchers think the scene could be the world's oldest-recorded story.

The findings were presented in the journal Nature by archaeologists from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

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