A patchy, weathered painting of a beast daubed on the wall of a limestone cave in Borneo may be the oldest known example of figurative rock art, say researchers who dated the work. Photograph: Luc-Henri Fage“It is the oldest figurative cave painting in the world,” said Maxime Aubert, an archaeologist and geochemist at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ochre and mulberry panel of hand stencils, superimposed over older reddish/orange hand stencils. Rock art itself goes back much further, with Neanderthals decorating cave walls in Spain long before modern humans reached Europe. It is not made clear that the oldest minimum ages are clearly and unambiguously related to the figurative art.”

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2018 18:00 UTC