A newly dated Indonesian cave painting may be 1,100 years older than the world’s oldest known rock art, but not everyone is convinced by the evidence. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers in Indonesia ...

At least 67,800 years ago, someone placed their hand on the wall inside a limestone cave and used a reddish-brown pigment to trace the outline of a handprint. But the unknown artist didn’t stop there: ...

The stencil, a faint hand outline, was uncovered by a team of researchers from Griffith University at Liang Metanduno cave. Hidden beneath newer paintings, it had been overlooked until careful ...

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago. On a tiny island just off the coast of Sulawesi (a much larger island in Indonesia ...

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 ...

A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression. Researchers have determined that hand stencils in Maltravieso Cave are more than 66,000 years old, ...