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Ancient Indonesian rock paintings rewrite art history - C C - Oct 12, 2014
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/10/09/4102672.htm
"A lot of people used to believe that something special happened in Europe and this is where humans became truly modern," says Aubert, who is the lead author on a paper appearing today in the journal Nature. He says until now cave paintings at El Castillo in Spain were accepted as the oldest reliably dated rock art -- at around 41,000 years old. But the story has now changed with Aubert and colleagues' dating of 12 hand stencils and two animal paintings that appear in big limestone caves at Maros, Sulawesi. "Now we can say that modern humans were making cave paintings in Southeast Asia as well, 40,000 years ago," says Aubert.