00:04Humanity has an innate need to tell stories, something experts believe was a way to pass down information critical for
00:10survival.
00:11Now experts say this might be the first one ever written down.
00:15It's a painting that was discovered on a cave wall in what is now Indonesia, and it dates back some
00:2051,200 years.
00:22They say it shows human-like figures on a pig hunt, and it exceeds the previously oldest cave art by
00:28millennia.
00:28The phrasing of human-like is incredibly important here, as these paintings were made when Neanderthals were still around,
00:34meaning experts can't be sure just yet whether early humans or our late ancestors created them.
00:40The previously oldest cave art was also discovered in Indonesia, that one dating back to around 48,000 years ago,
00:46meaning this newly discovered one was made more than 3,000 years before that one,
00:51with the researchers writing that similar depictions of human-like figures and animals, especially those appearing to depict a story,
00:57weren't seen in this frequency until tens of thousands of years later in Europe.
01:02steps on the script.
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01:07On one's couch left,
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