40,000-year-old Indonesian cave paintings rewrite art history

Newly dated cave art from Sulawesi have now been determined as among the oldest human art yet discovered.

Prehistoric paintings at least 40,000 years old that depict animals – including a babirusa (pig-deer) – and the outline of human hands in seven caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are rewriting the history of art, according to a new study published on Oct 8 in the journal Nature.