Researchers say a cave painting found on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi, depicting human-like figures hunting animals, appears to be the earliest known pictorial record of storytelling.
Until now, the oldest rock art showing a character with the characteristics of an animal had been an ivory sculpture found in a cave in Germany.The Indonesian cave painting also provided some of the earliest evidence of human spirituality, one of the study's co-authors, Adam Brumm, an archaeologist at Australia's Griffith University said.
The research was done in collaboration with Indonesia's National Research Centre for Archaeology, and scientists from culture heritage department of Makassar, the provincial capital.
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