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    Where Does Art Come From? Indonesian Cave Paintings Deepen Mystery

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    Archaeologists in Indonesia have discovered cave art that is estimated to be over 40,000 years old, including paintings of buffalos, pigs, and human hands on cave walls and ceilings. This challenges the previous belief that prehistoric cave art originated in Western Europe, and suggests that the practice began earlier and in multiple places, such as Indonesia and Africa, before humans spread across the globe.

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    Archaeologists in Indonesia have discovered cave art that is estimated to be over 40,000 years old, including paintings of buffalos, pigs, and human hands on cave walls and ceilings. This challenges the previous belief that prehistoric cave art originated in Western Europe, and suggests that the practice began earlier and in multiple places, such as Indonesia and Africa, before humans spread across the globe.

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    Where does art come from?

    Indonesian cave paintings deepen


    mystery.
    Archaeologists say they have discovered 40,000-year-old cave art in Indonesia,
    suggesting that Europe was not necessarily the birthplace of human prehistoric art.

    paintings of miniature buffalos, warty pigs and human hands covering the walls and
    ceilings of caves in Indonesia could be among the oldest examples of cave art in the
    world, a new study finds.

    The paintings — some of which might be more than 40,000 years old — challenge
    Europe's standing as the birthplace of prehistoric art.

    "It was previously thought that Western Europe was the centerpiece of a 'symbolic
    explosion' in early human artistic activity, such as cave painting and other forms of
    image making, including figurative art, around 40,000 years ago," said study leader
    Maxime Aubert, an archaeologist and geochemist at Australia's Griffith University.
    "However, our findings show that cave art was made at opposite ends of the Pleistocene
    Eurasian world at about the same time, suggesting these practices have deeper origins —
    perhaps in Africa before our species left this continent and spread across the globe."
    [See Photos of the Stunning Cave Art from Indonesia]

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