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Handy work: Stencil rock paintings found in Indonesia may be world's oldest cave art

Hand stencil paintings found in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi could be the world's oldest of cave art, according to a new study. Archaeologists believe the works were created at least 67,800 years ago.



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00:00At this point in time, it is now officially the oldest known cave art in the world, which
00:26is really cool.
00:49This is a really exciting finding to find hands this old.
00:53But as you said, that timing is either really early humans were in that cave making hands,
00:59or potentially Denisovans were making hands before the humans got there.
01:12One of the things that's really cool about this article is it's really clearly flagging
01:16that that region is vastly understudied, and there is probably much more ancient art waiting
01:23to be found there.
01:23It's really cool.
01:33It's really cool.
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