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Nina Willburger@drnwillburger.bsky.social |
World's oldest artwork discovered in Indonesian. The cave painting is the oldest known narrative artwork ever made by human hands, dating back more than 51,000 years according to new research. It shows three people around a #pig.
phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Anja Jessen
@anjajessen.bsky.social
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A marvel.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekAForArt
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A. J. West
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This animal is identified as a 'pig' in all the reports I've seen in the media, but presumably -- as with some of the other Pleistocene rock art from Sulawesi -- it depicts a babirusa (*Babyrousa* spp.), which is only arguably a 'pig'. I might be being pedantic here though.
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