Thursday, October 9, 2014

Sulawesi discovered cave drawings heyday of European cave art – Express-News

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Rock Paintings of the European and Asian parts of the world came about the same time. This conclusion was Australian, Indonesian scientists after carefully studied drawings in karst caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Previously, researchers believed that the first cave art originated in Europe, and is 40 thousand years ago. The earliest paintings found in the caves of France and Spain. But after the discovery of rock art works in Sulawesi, scientists found that the rock art was born in the “poles of the world” is about one time period.

Age sulaveskih figures is about 37 thousand years. It’s about drawing the human hand in the style of cave drawings Cueva de las Manos and figure babirussy (a subspecies of pigs).

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