Found in Indonesia the oldest figurative art testimony in the world

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Found in Indonesia the oldest figurative art testimony in the world







A team of researchers from the University of Griffith (Australia) has found in a cave in Borneo the oldest figurative art show in the world. The cave painting, which represents a wild animal with reddish and orange pigments, is between 40,000 and 52,000 years old. According to the scientists, the drawings of the cave are contemporary -if not earlier- to the first artistic manifestations found in Spanish and French caves.



"Of the paintings we date, the image of an unidentified animal, probably of a wild ox, has a minimum age of 40,000 years and is the oldest known piece of figurative art," says the research leader. , Maxime Aubert.



This discovery, published this week in the journal Nature, shows that rock art, one of the most important innovations in the cultural history of the human being, did not emerge on the European continent as was believed until now. The inhabitants of the Asian region played a vital role in its development.



Since 1990, it is known that the caves of the eastern mountains of Kalimatan, a province on the island of Borneo, contain prehistoric art, drawings and other images including thousands of representations of stenciled hands, animals and abstract symbols. In the research, specialists have grouped these paintings into three phases using a uranium-based dating technique.







The oldest figurative art show represents a wild animal. (Photo: LUC- HENRI FAGE)



The first one includes the drawings in red and orange tones of animals (mainly wild oxen) and hands from 52,000 to 40,000 years ago. The second is composed of hands stenciled in purple tones, complex motifs, as well as images of humans. In the final phase, figures of people, ships and geometric designs made with black pigment are dated.



While the age of all these designs is unclear, researchers believe that the paintings of the second phase were made about 20,000 years ago. This later artistic manifestation would be proof that there was a great cultural change from which a new artistic style was born: the inhabitants of the area went from painting large animals to represent the human world.



"This possibly reflects the arrival of a wave of humans at that time, or that there was a natural evolution of art coinciding with the beginning of the Last Glacial Maximum and with a potential increase in the size of the population in the part of Borneo that had conditions more favorable for human life, "he tells Sinc Aubert.



Until now, it was known that the modern human came to Southeast Asia about 70,000 or 60,000 years ago. In 2014, the team of experts at the forefront of this research discovered on the island of Celebes (near Borneo) figurative art of 35,000 years of age and stencils made 40,000 years ago in the Pleistocene.



"What is surprising is why we do not have rock art from when humans came to the region. Perhaps it is because it has not yet been found or has not been dated, or because they were different migratory waves, or because the date in which humans are believed to have arrived in Southeast Asia and Australia is incorrect, "the scientist points out.



"Maybe it has to do with population density, which could have increased significantly 50,000 or 40,000 years ago," continues Aubert. According to the researcher, the art found in Borneo could also have been exported to Celebes and even reached Papua New Guinea and Australia.



Although there are many possible explanations, the fact that the figurative art of Asia is as old or more than that discovered in Europe can help solve some of the unknowns. "I think we are beginning to see a pattern in the places where art developed more or less at the same time and in a similar way in opposite places of the world," the archaeologist says. (Source: SINC)

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