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The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying handprints in Indonesia. The find, along with others recently made in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an Indonesian cave system known for its prehistoric art, the oldest cave art yet found was hiding in plain sight. In a cave ...

For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...

The painting was found inside the Liang Metanduno limestone cave in Indonesia Cover Images via AP Images Researchers have discovered an outline of a hand inside a cave in Indonesia, which could be the ...

Maxime Aubert receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Google Arts & Culture and The National Geographic Society. Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adhi ...

Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years NEW YORK -- Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia ...

A faded outline of a human hand found on a cave wall in Indonesia may officially be the oldest known rock art in the world, according to archaeologists who say it was created at least 67,800 years ago ...

Researchers have discovered an outline of a hand inside a cave in Indonesia, which could be the oldest cave art ever found Archeologists also believe Indigenous Australians created the art The piece ...

The outline of a hand made with red pigment on the wall of a cave in Indonesia at least 67,800 years ago may be the world’s oldest rock art, according to a new study. The faded hand stencil, along ...