An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

The painting of the hand is over 15,000 years older than another cave painting on Sulawesi that researchers found in 2024, ...

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

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

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

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

The 67,800-year-old reddish-colored stenciled image has become faded over time and is barely visible on a cave wall, but ...

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

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

A newly dated Indonesian cave painting may be 1,100 years older than the world’s oldest known rock art, but not everyone is ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

This discovery challenges the notion that abstract and symbolic thinking began only 40,000 years ago.