The stencil, which had remained largely unnoticed amidst more recent paintings of animals and figures, is now the oldest ...

Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.

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A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.

Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years.

A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...