Sunday 4 July 2021

Borneo holds the oldest known figurative painting

Borneo holds the oldest known figurative painting

Researchers identified the world’s oldest-known figurative painting in the Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, in East Kalimantan, Borneo. The cave painting depicts an indeterminate animal, possibly wild cattle, and was dated using a uranium-series analysis to be at least 40,000 years old.

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