cave painting
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A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
As the authors state in their conclusion, the cave painting they studied predates even "masterpieces" like "the cave of Chauvet-Pont d'Arc" or "those recently discovered in the Sulawesi caves."
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2023
Whether new waves of people migrating from Africa brought the skills of figurative cave painting with them, or whether these arts emerged later, remains unclear.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2018
They left a cave painting on the wall in there: a gorgeous red stag, indisputably recognizable to us — their descendants — as art.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2017
“I want to leave something behind for people to remember me by. The way kings do. Or the cave painting people.”
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
