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In Australia, cave paintings have been found on the Arnhem Land plateau showing megafauna which are thought to have been extinct for over 40,000 years, making this site another candidate for oldest known painting; however, the proposed age is dependent on the estimate of the extinction of the species seemingly depicted. [25]
This is a descriptive list of Stone Age art, ... contains the oldest known cave paintings of Central Europe, radiocarbon dated to 32,000 and 35,000 BP;
Art of the European Upper Paleolithic includes rock and cave painting, jewelry, [12] [13] drawing, carving, engraving and sculpture in clay, bone, antler, [14] stone [15] and ivory, such as the Venus figurines, and musical instruments such as flutes. Decoration was also made on functional tools, such as spear throwers, perforated batons and lamps.
Impressions of hands and feet that appear to have been made by two children about 200,000 years ago may be the earliest work of human art. Ancient handprints pre-dating earliest cave paintings may ...
A cave painting in Indonesia is the oldest such artwork in the world ... Scientists used the same technique to reassess the age of another painting from Sulawesi, revising its age to be at least ...
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (c. 3.3 million – c. 11,700 years ago) (/ ˌ p eɪ l i oʊ ˈ l ɪ θ ɪ k, ˌ p æ l i-/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee-), also called the Old Stone Age (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós) 'old' and λίθος (líthos) 'stone'), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost ...
Santimamiñe cave, Kortezubi, ... It was discovered by children in 1917. [2] ... List of Stone Age art
In Spain, Uranium-thorium dating of painted designs in the caves of La Pasiega , a hand stencil in Maltravieso (Extremadura), and red-painted speleothems in Ardales yielded an age of more than 64,800 years, predating the previously oldest known art by at least 20,000 years. [2]