Ghostly hand markings and animals in Sulawesi caves are much older than thought,pushing back probable date for origin of artPaintings of wild animals and hand markings left by adults and children on cave walls in Indonesia are at least 35000 years broken-down, making them some of the oldest artworks known.
The rock art was originally discovered in caves on the island of Sulawesi in the 1950s, and but dismissed as younger than 10000 years broken-down because scientists thought older paintings could not possibly survive in a tropical climate.
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Source: theguardian.com