via The Straits Times, 25 January 2020: ST carried a feature on the discovery of the 45,000-year-old pig painting in Sulawesi (the oldest known figurative painting to date), with quotes from the papers’ authors and myself. Unfortunately, the story is behind a paywall. There are smaller supplementary stories listed below.
Indonesian archaeologist Basran Burhan and his colleagues had finished scouring untouched sites in their search for ancient relics, but undiscovered prehistoric paintings on rocks, which they were looking for, still eluded them.
Undeterred, they went back to the drawing board – in this case, Google Maps, to zoom in on unexplored caves in the region.
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