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  2. Prehistoric art - Wikipedia

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    Belonging in the Lithic stage, the oldest known art in the Americas is the Vero Beach bone, possibly a mammoth bone, etched with a profile of walking mammoth that dates back to 11,000 BCE. [60] The oldest known painted object in the Americas is the Cooper Bison Skull from 10,900 to 10,200 BCE. [61]

  3. Art of the Upper Paleolithic - Wikipedia

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    The art of the Upper Paleolithic represents the oldest form of prehistoric art. Figurative art is present in Europe and Southeast Asia , beginning around 50,000 years ago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Non-figurative cave paintings , consisting of hand stencils and simple geometric shapes, are somewhat older, at least 40,000 years old, and possibly as old ...

  4. Cave painting - Wikipedia

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    The oldest are often constructed from hand stencils and simple geometric shapes. [5] [b] More recently, in 2021, cave art of a pig found in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and dated to over 45,500 years ago, has been reported. [7] [8] A 2018 study claimed an age of 64,000 years for the oldest examples of non-figurative cave art in the Iberian Peninsula.

  5. World’s oldest cave painting is at least 51,200 years old ...

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    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 makes it ...

  6. A cave drawing of human figures and a pig is the world’s ...

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    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.

  7. Venus of Hohle Fels - Wikipedia

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    The discovery of the Venus of Hohle Fels by the archaeological team led by Nicholas J. Conard of Universität Tübingen Abteilung Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie pushed back the date of the oldest known human figurative art, [a] by several millennia, [b] establishing that works of art were being produced throughout the Aurignacian Period.

  8. List of Stone Age art - Wikipedia

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    The oldest firmly dated rock-art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Nawarla Gabarnmang rock shelter in south western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Dated at 28,000 years, it is one of the oldest known pieces of rock art on Earth with a confirmed date.

  9. History of painting - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known cave paintings are more than 44,000–50,000 years old, found in the caves in the district of Maros (Sulawesi, Indonesia). The oldest type of cave paintings are hand stencils and simple geometric shapes; the oldest undisputed examples of figurative cave paintings are somewhat younger, close to 35,000 years old. [11]