Scientists Stunned By 40,000 Year Old Paintings On Indonesian Island, Rivals Oldest European Ice Age Art (Video)

This suggests that the creative brilliance required to produce the beautiful and stunningly life-like portrayals of animals seen in Palaeolithic Europe, such as those from the famous sites of Chauvet and Lascaux, could have particularly deep roots within the human lineage.

“In fact, cave painting and related forms of artistic expression were most likely part of the cultural traditions of the first modern humans to spread out of Africa and into Asia and Australia, long before they reached Europe,’’ said co-author Adam Brumm, also of Griffith University.

There are more than 90 cave art sites in the Maros area, according to Muhammad Ramli and Budianto Hakim, Indonesian co-leaders of the study, and hundreds of individual paintings and stencils, many of which are likely to be tens of thousands of years old.

The local cultural heritage management authority is now implementing a new policy to protect these rock art localities, some of which are already inscribed on the tentative list of World Heritage sites.

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