A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said on Wednesday, and sheds light on how humans first migrated to Australia.
The cave art dates back at least 67,800 years, according to research published in the journal Nature by a team of Indonesian and Australian archaeologists.
“We have been working in Indonesia for a long time,” study co-author Maxime Aubert of Australia’s Griffith University said.
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World’s oldest cave art discovered in Indonesia
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