The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast Asia.

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a cave in Indonesia ...

A newly dated Indonesian cave painting may be 1,100 years older than the world’s oldest known rock art, but not everyone is ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal hand stencil in Spain) by about 1,100 years.

Scientists have discovered what they say is the earliest known rock art, in a cave in Indonesia. They say the image dates to more than 67,000 years ago.

A faded outline of a human hand found on a cave wall in Indonesia may officially be the oldest known rock art in the world, ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

Hand stencil paintings found in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi could be the world's oldest of cave art, ...

For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A hand stencil or handprint on the cave wall in Sulawesi, Indonesia, has now become the oldest known rock art in the world. Its age is estimated at least 67,800 years, surpassing ...

Jan 21 (Reuters) - The painted outline of a human hand inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Muna represents what researchers are calling the oldest example of rock art in the world, created at ...