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EXCERPT: The world’s earliest-known cave painting of an animal has been discovered on Borneo in Indonesia. It dates back to at least 40,000 years ago, a new study says. The drawing is even older than the famous images of animals found in France and Spain. It was spotted in a remote cave by a team of archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia....

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Evidence is dearly lacking but there are some scientists with the opinion ancient seafaring was taking place as long 45,000 years ago. Could the artists be some of the first Robinson Crusoe's ever to venture into the unknown. Perhaps paintings served a purpose for future inhabitants, accidental or otherwise.

(Nov 8, 2018 08:39 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]Evidence is dearly lacking but there are some scientists with the opinion ancient seafaring was taking place as long 45,000 years ago. Could the artists be some of the first Robinson Crusoe's ever to venture into the unknown. Perhaps paintings served a purpose for future inhabitants, accidental or otherwise.

Borneo was one of the island bridges for hopping to Australia and New Guinea. At the very minimum, it was inhabited 46,000 years ago. So a whole lotta' artwork goin' only a thousand years after that. ("Only" referring to how the further back in time human history goes the more fleeting or inconsequential a millennium seems -- a series of empires could rise and fall during that span in much later reckoning.)

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