Drawing of 40,000 year old animals discovered in the remote cave of Borneo
Drawing of 40,000 year old animals discovered in the remote cave of Borneo
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This composite image of the book "Borneo, Memory of the Caves" shows the oldest figurative work of art in the world, with a minimum age of 40,000 years, in a limestone cave in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo.
(Luc-Henri Fage / kalimanthrope.com through AP)The red silhouette of a bull-shaped beast on the wall of a cave in the Indonesian part of Borneo is the oldest example of an animal drawing, experts say.
Researchers say that the 5-foot-wide sketch is at least 40,000 years old. This would make it a little older than similar animal paintings found in famous caves in France and Spain. Until a few years ago, experts believed that Europe was where the ancestors of humanity began to draw animals and other figures.
"The oldest rock art image we came out with is a large painting of an unidentified animal, probably a kind of wild cattle that is still in the jungle of Borneo, it has a minimum age of 40,000 years and is now the work of the oldest known figurative art ". said Maxime Aubert, associate professor at Griffith University of Australia, in a declaration.
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Aubert led the research project, which also included the National Archeology Research Center of Indonesia (ARKENAS) and the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). The study is published in the magazine. Nature.
This undated photo provided by Kinez Riza shows purple hand templates in a cave in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. This particular style of hand template dates from the height of the Last Glacial Maximum some 20,000 years ago.
(Kinez Riza via AP)The scientists point out that, although Borneo is the third largest island on Earth, during most of the Ice Age, it formed the eastern end of the vast continental region of Eurasia. Europe was at the western end of the vast land mass of 8.078 miles wide.
"Now it seems that two first provinces of rock art emerged at a similar time in the remote corners of the Eurasian Paleolithic: one in Europe and one in Indonesia at the opposite end of this world of the ice age," said Associate Professor of the University from Griffith, Adam Brumm, who participated in the study, in a statement.
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It is known that the remote limestone caves in Borneo contain prehistoric drawings from the nineties. To reach them, Aubert and his team used machetes to traverse the thick jungle in a green corner of the island.
They put on the miners' helmets to illuminate the darkness, walked and crawled for miles of caves decorated with hundreds of old designs, looking for works of art that could be dated. They needed to find specific mineral deposits in the drawings to determine their age with technology that measures the decomposition of the uranium element.
In 2014, Aubert and his fellow researchers. reported in the rock art of the neighboring Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Measuring the decomposition of uranium, they dated hand templates, created by blowing a red tint through a tube to capture the outline of a hand pressed against the rock, almost 40,000 years ago.
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With the Borneo rock art, scientists can build an approximate timeline of how art developed in the area. In addition to the bull, they dated red and purple hand stencils and cave paintings of human scenes.
After large drawings and templates of animals, "it seems that the focus changed to show the human world," said Aubert.
The discoveries of rock art continue to be a source of fascination for archaeologists. Last year, the researchers. discovered a vast range of mysterious pre-Columbian rock art in the caves of a remote uninhabited Caribbean island.
Archaeologists made the discovery while exploring about 70 cave systems on Mona Island of Puerto Rico. The thousands of designs, created centuries ago, constitute the largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art in the Caribbean, experts say.
The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers
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