Video by Meridith Kohut
How did the world's first artist leave their mark on cave walls in Indonesia? Archeologist Muhammad Ramli believes he found the answer. After a hand stencil-painting in the caves in South Sulawesi was recently dated to 39,900 years ago, Indonesia took a place alongside France and Spain as a site of the earliest known representational art. Now we must ask not only how and why we began making pictures, but how and why we did so on two continents, at the same time.
Read the story here.
How did the world's first artist leave their mark on cave walls in Indonesia? Archeologist Muhammad Ramli believes he found the answer. After a hand stencil-painting in the caves in South Sulawesi was recently dated to 39,900 years ago, Indonesia took a place alongside France and Spain as a site of the earliest known representational art. Now we must ask not only how and why we began making pictures, but how and why we did so on two continents, at the same time.
Read the story here.
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