The faint outline of a hand in a cave in Indonesia’s Sulawesi has been recognised as the world’s oldest known rock art, shattering a long-held scientific theory that human artistic expression first flourished in Ice Age Europe.
Dating back at least 67,800 years, the faded stencil was found hiding beneath a more recent chicken sketch in Metanduno cave on Muna Island.
Researchers say the finding, which was published in the scientific journal Nature on January 21, proves that ancient humans in…
Indonesia’s 68,000-year-old handprint: the birth of human art?
