Indonesian Cave Art: A Dramatic New Discovery

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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It’s a paradox for the ages, breaking news about people who lived and died thousands of years ago. This discovery is no different, because Adam Brumm and his team in Sulawesi have released their discovery of the oldest known art. The paintings on the Indonesian island are over 45,500 years old, and feature three pigs alongside the stencilled outlines of the hands of their prehistoric painter. Listen as Adam tells Tristan about his research on this beautiful island, how the pigs were discovered and what they can tell us about early people.

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0:41.6	Got breaking news for you now.
0:43.3	You'll all have seen the huge discovery, the huge news from an Indonesian cave, which
0:49.9	was inhabited during the Ice Age by human beings.
0:54.1	And there's a vast amount of cave art that's just been deciphered on its walls.
0:59.1	This discovery in Sulawesi has made everybody very excited indeed.
1:03.9	Tristan, on our sister podcast, The Ancient's managed to get Professor Adam Brum from Griffith
1:09.4	University in Brisbane.
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