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A Hand Stencil Found In A Cave On Muna Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia Is The Oldest Known Rock Art, Dated To ~67,800 Years Ago. Over 1,100 Years Older Than A Neanderthal Stencil From Spain, It Pushes Back Symbolic Art Worldwide And Suggests Early Modern Humans Used Boats To Cross Open Sea, Aiding Their Arrival In Australia By 65,000 Years Ago.

A 67,000-Year-Old Handprint Found on an Indonesian Island Is Officially the Oldest Piece of Art Ever Dated

https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/handprint-indonesia-oldest-art/

A faint red stencil in an Indonesian cave shatters our timeline of creativity and migration in Wallacea.