The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.

A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said Wednesday, and sheds light on how humans first migrated to Australia.

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A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists ...

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An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago. The work was dated by a group of experts from Australia and Indonesia in a ...

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A faint hand stencil hidden on a cave wall in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,800 years old—potentially making it the oldest known cave art yet studied. The discovery comes from a limestone ...

A well-known tourist destination in Sulawesi, Indonesia, revealed ancient handprints blurred under much more modern paintings ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered the world's oldest artwork in Indonesia.Researchers have found that handprints stencilled ...

It really just shows how long people have been making rock art in that part of the world,” an archaeology professor said of the find in Indonesia. “It’s a very long time.” ...