- Picture courting again 51,200 years was found on island of Sulawesi, Indonesia
A portray that dates again greater than 50,000 years is the oldest piece of story-related paintings but found, consultants have stated.
The cave portray which was discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, reveals three human-like figures carrying rods standing in entrance of a wild pig.
Researchers from Griffith College in Australia stated the picture is ‘now the earliest identified surviving instance of representational artwork, and visible storytelling on the earth’.
Relationship again at 51,200 years, it’s significantly older than the well-known cave work at Lascaux, in France, that are 17,000 years previous.
A cave portray courting again greater than 50,000 years has been discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi
The authors, writing in Nature, stated work of human and animal figures ‘have a deeper origin within the historical past of recent human image-making than recognised to this point’ and recommend a ‘wealthy tradition of story telling’ within the area.
Storytelling in visible artwork solely appeared ‘tens of 1000’s’ of years later in Europe, they stated.
The very oldest artwork of any type are grid-like markings inscribed on small lumps of ochre in Southern Africa, which date again so far as 100,000 years.
