Ice Age Cave Art Scene

Indonesian handprints are oldest cave art found yet

Discovered: An outline of a hand that’s at least 67,800 years old

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.

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World's oldest cave art — the outline of a hand — found in Indonesia

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Hand stencil made almost 68,000 years ago is the oldest cave art ever found

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Oldest cave painting of red claw hand could rewrite human creativity timeline

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

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Human hand outline may be oldest rock art in the world, researchers say

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World’s oldest cave painting is discovered on remote island as find could rewrite human history

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World’s oldest known rock art discovered in Indonesia

The hand stencil has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago, making it 1,100 years older than the earliest example of rock art that was known about before this, produced in Spain by Neanderthals.

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Hand shape in Indonesian cave may be world’s oldest known rock art

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World’s oldest-known rock art found in Indonesian cave

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Humanity’s oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment over a hand pressed against the rock, are visible on cave walls beneath layers of mineral deposits.

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Is It Time To Reconsider the Artistic Value of Ice Age Artifacts?

Whether they take the form of carved images, sculptured figurines, or elegant abstractions, artifacts produced in prehistoric times are rarely seen as artistic expressions in their own right. Rather, they are first and foremost archaeological curiosities ...