00:00Humanity has an innate need to tell stories, something experts believe was a way to pass
00:08down information critical for survival. Now experts say this might be the first one ever
00:14written down. It's a painting that was discovered on a cave wall in what is now Indonesia and it
00:19dates back some 51,200 years. They say it shows human-like figures on a pig hunt and it exceeds
00:26the previously oldest cave art by millennia. The phrasing of human-like is incredibly important
00:31here as these paintings were made when Neanderthals were still around, meaning experts can't be sure
00:36just yet whether early humans or our late ancestors created them. The previously oldest cave art was
00:41also discovered in Indonesia, that one dating back to around 48,000 years ago, meaning this newly
00:47discovered one was made more than 3,000 years before that one, with the researchers writing
00:52that similar depictions of human-like figures and animals, especially those appearing to depict
00:56a story, weren't seen in this frequency until tens of thousands of years later in Europe.
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