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Ben Royce 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚫馃嚛
Ben Royce 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚫馃嚛
@benroyce@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

What do you see in this picture?

#CaveArt

The cave the #art was found in is well known, containing many depictions. It is on the island of #Sulawesi in #Indonesia

No one paid much attention to these faint hand stencils on a ceiling, there were much more fanciful drawings about. But recently chemical analysis showed these stencils are about 67,800 years old: 15,000 years older than any previously known ancient cave art

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09968-y

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oldest-cave-art-ever-found-discovered-in-indonesia/

#Archaeology #Science

4 reddish brown hand stencils on a cave wall
4 reddish brown hand stencils on a cave wall
4 reddish brown hand stencils on a cave wall
Scientific American

This handprint is the oldest known cave art

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave might shed light on when early humans migrated to Australia
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