The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...
On an idyllic tropical island, archaeologists have found a cave wall that's been carefully adorned with pigment in an oddly ...
The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...
Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...
The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.
Detail of engravings on limestone block from Švédův stůl Cave PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—According to a Radio Prague ...
A faint hand stencil hidden on a cave wall in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,800 years old—potentially making it the oldest known cave art yet studied. The discovery comes from a limestone ...
The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.
Jan 21 (Reuters) - The painted outline of a human hand inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Muna represents what researchers are calling the oldest example of rock art in the world, created at ...