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1 Maltravieso Cave—Cáceres, Spain(64,000 Years Old) The world’s oldest confirmed cave painting is a beautiful red hand stencil that was discovered in the cave of Maltravieso in Cáceres, Spain, along with two nearby caves: La Pasiega and Ardales.
It’s among more than a dozen other dated cave paintings on Sulawesi that now rival the earliest cave art in Spain and France, long believed to be the oldest on earth.
The oldest known cave painting is a red hand stencil in Maltravieso cave, Cáceres, Spain. It has been dated using the uranium-thorium method [18] to older than 64,000 years and was made by a Neanderthal. [9]
In 2018, researchers announced the discovery of the oldest known cave paintings, made by Neanderthals at least 64,000 years ago, in the Spanish caves of La Pasiega, Maltravieso and Ardales....
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years.
The oldest example of figurative cave art has been discovered in the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian scientists.
The world’s oldest known cave paintings, to date, have been discovered nestled within the limestone karst formations of the Maros-Pangkep region. These artworks have captivated archaeologists...
A cave painting in Indonesia is the oldest such artwork in the world, dating back at least 51,200 years, according to an international team of researchers who say its narrative scene also...
More than 50,000 years ago, humans painted a hunting scene in a cave in Indonesia that archaeologists say represents the oldest known example of storytelling in art history.
A painted rhino in France’s Chauvet Cave had until recently been the oldest known example of figurative cave art, dated to roughly 35,000 to 39,000 years old. Chauvet and a few other sites...