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Narrative Cave Art in Indonesia Dated to 44,000 Years Ago

ASIA onlinenewsplus · January 7, 2025 · Comments off

Cave Art in Indonesia Dated to 44,000 Years Ago, and the cave art is the earliest known record of ‘storytelling’, researchers say

The artwork found in a limestone cave in 2017, was dated to nearly 44,000 years ago using uranium-series analysis, which they said in the study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.

A team of archaeologists and researchers from Indonesia’s National Research Centre for Archaeology and Griffith University, work in Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 limestone cave in South Sulawesi, Indonesia December 4, 2019. The picture was taken on December 4, 2019.