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Cave paintings found at the Apollo 11 Cave in Namibia are estimated to date from approximately 25,500–27,500 years ago. [57] In 2011, archaeologists found a small rock fragment at Blombos Cave, about 300 km (190 mi) east of Cape Town on the southern cape coastline in South Africa, among spear points and other excavated material. After ...
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]
The Kalimantan caves were explored in 1994 and the paintings first spotted by French caver Luc-Henri Fage. [11] [12] Lubang Jeriji Saleh (first called Ilas Kenceng in the Kalimanthrope publications) was discovered by Pindi Setiawan, Luc-Henri Fage and Jean-Michel Chazine in September 1998, guided by Pak Saleh, a Dayak swallow nest hunter. [13]
The Leang Karampuang painting, the researchers said, predates the cave paintings of Europe, the earliest of which is at El Castillo in Spain, dating to about 40,800 years ago.
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 ...
A modern interpretation of a bison from the Altamira cave ceiling, one of the cave's most famous paintings. Some of the polychrome paintings at Altamira Cave are well known in Spanish popular culture. The logo used by the autonomous government of Cantabria to promote tourism to the region is based on one of the bisons in this cave.
Spread over 5000 ha, Mangar Bani is the largest discovered pre-historic site and Stone Age tool making factory in the Indian subcontinent, and the first ever site discovered in the Aravalli range with cave paintings. Stone tools and rock art dating back to 100,000 years BP and cave paintings dating back to 20,000-40,000 BP have been found.
Though tools from the Palaeolithic Age have been identified earlier in parts of the Aravallis, it is for the first time that cave paintings and rock art of a large magnitude have been found in Haryana." [citation needed] Cave painting is a type of rock art that includes petroglyphs, or engravings, found on the wall or ceilings of caves ...