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The Leang Karampuang painting, the researchers said, predates the cave paintings of Europe, the earliest of which is at El Castillo in Spain, dating to about 40,800 years ago.
Cave paintings [ edit ] On July 3, 2024, the journal Nature published research findings indicating that the cave paintings , which depict anthropomorphic figures interacting with a pig and measure 36 by 15 inches, in Leang Karampuang are approximately 51,200 years old, establishing them as the oldest known paintings in the world.
One of the oldest known figurative paintings, a depiction of an unknown bovine, was discovered in the Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave and dated to be more than 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old. [10] [11] Nearly 350 caves have now been discovered in France and Spain that contain art from prehistoric times.
The oldest known cave paintings are more than 44,000–50,000 years old, found in the caves in the district of Maros (Sulawesi, Indonesia). The oldest type of cave paintings are hand stencils and simple geometric shapes; the oldest undisputed examples of figurative cave paintings are somewhat younger, close to 35,000 years old. [11]
A cave painting in Indonesia is the oldest such artwork in the world, dating back at least 51,200 years, according to an international team of researchers who say its narrative scene also makes it ...
Impressions of hands and feet that appear to have been made by two children about 200,000 years ago may be the earliest work of human art. Ancient handprints pre-dating earliest cave paintings may ...
American heiress, artist, and art collector [31] Edna Clarke Hall: 1879–1979: 100: British artist and poet [32] Alphaeus Philemon Cole: 1876–1988: 112: American painter [33] Horacio Coppola: 1906–2012: 105: Argentine photographer and filmmaker [34] Robert Couturier: 1905–2008: 103: French sculptor [35] Trevor Dannatt: 1920–2021: 101 ...
The title of the world’s oldest person now belongs to Inah Canabarro Lucas, who is also 116 years old. She was born on June 8, 1908, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She was born two weeks after ...