via The Collector, 11 November 2022: The rock art from Borneo and Sulawesi is featured.
In 2014, it was discovered that rock art paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to between 40,000 – 45,000 years ago. Depicting animal forms and handprints, these paintings have become contenders for the title of oldest cave paintings anywhere.
In 2018, human and animal paintings of roughly the same age were found in Borneo, and in 2021, a painting of a native Indonesian warty pig in the Leang Tedongnge cave, again in Sulawasi, came to light. It is now considered by some to be the oldest known representational painting in the world. These 21st-century finds have been the first to make scholars get serious about the possibility that humanity’s first art was not necessarily born in the caves of western Europe.
Source: The 7 Most Important Prehistoric Cave Paintings in the World
