Rocking Art From 44,000 Years Ago

Adam Brumm, Archaeologist, Griffith University

19-Dec-19 14:00

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Archaeologists have discovered what could be the world’s oldest recorded story in the form of rock art in a remote cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. But are there still things we can learn from these art forms?

Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Sharmilla Ganesan, Lim Sue Ann, Tee Shiao Eek

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Tags: The Bigger Picture, The Daily Digest, rock art, cave painting, world's oldest story, Sulawesi, Indonesia, archaeology, storytelling, Neanderthals, handprints, narrative artwork, Lascaux Cave, Nature, Adam Brumm, Leang Bulu’Sipong 4, hunting, Ice Age artists, Pleistocene art,

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