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
In the millennia since the first wolf peed on a cave painting, they’ve hacked our neurological wiring so that even a few seconds of eye contact elevate oxytocin levels in both dog and owner.
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2018
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
Like going inside and becoming a cave painting.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
