I have never seen anything like this before. Of course I have seen hundreds of cave paintings in this region, but we have never seen such a hunting scene described.
this is the description of a magical discovery on the indonesian island of Sulawesi.
the Man with the big words is the archaeologist Adam Brumm of Griffith University in Brisbane. He is part of a group of scientists who have analyzed the hulemaleriet, who is said to be more than 44.000 years gamelt.
According to other researchers in the group, it is particularly noteworthy that the acting animals in the painting, as it could indicate the first signs of religious thinking. But however, it is not yet 100 percent clear that there is talk about a story.
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Here are pictures that can tell the world’s oldest story. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
‘In Europe has 14,000 to 21.000 years old cave paintings previously been described as the oldest stories in the world,’ write the researchers in the journal Nature.
however, It is not the oldest drawing ever found. Last year, a group of researchers a 73.000-year-old painting in south Africa.
the Archaeologists have used a very complicated method in order to estimate how old the painting is.
Here examines the mouth of the cave the limestone carefully, and on the way they can turn fast, when the first paintings were painted.
