World's oldest cave art

#Art & Culture

✅A team of scientists examined 11 caves and rock shelters in the Maros-Pangkep region in Sulawesi.

✅After investigation, researchers have reported that Pleistocene-era rock paintings dating back to 45,000-20,000 years ago are weathering at an alarming rate

✅A nearby cave features the world's oldest depiction of an animal, a warty pig painted on the wall 45,500 years ago, the cave art of Sulawesi is much older than the prehistoric cave art of Europe

✅The artwork in the area includes what is believed to be the world's oldest hand stencil (almost 40,000 years ago), created by pressing the hand on a cave wall and spraying wet red-mulberry pigments over it.