Cave mural found 512,200 years ago"Storytelling Evidence"
Jul 04, 2024
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The mural depicts three humans and a pig.
Scientists described this as evidence of the era's 'storytelling' interaction between humans and pigs.
According to foreign media such as the Daily Mail and the Guardian, an international joint research team, including Griffith University in Australia and the Indonesian Archaeological Research Department, recently published a mural believed to have been painted at least 51,200 years ago in the Leang Karampuang cave on Sulawesi, Indonesia.
The mural is 6,000 years older than the one in Les Ande Donge, Sulawesi, which researchers previously identified as the world's oldest cave mural (estimated 45,500 years ago).
If you look at the mural, three people who appear to be humans surround a large pig.
The researchers estimated that "the oldest mural with human imagination" that there must have been a rich storytelling culture in the region."
It also adds that "it appears that the cave where the mural was found is not easily accessible, either visited solely to paint or came to paint during other special acts."
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