In Indonesia, discovered an ancient rock painting – Utro.Ru

Archaeologists have long been puzzled by the fact that all of them the most famous ancient rock paintings found exclusively in Europe. Particularly distressing scientists that they did not meet these artifacts in the areas of early human migration routes in South Asia and the Far East. That is, there is also found cave paintings, but presumably more recent origin.

So, in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi early as the 1950s, were found 12 images stencil brushes human hands and two images of wild pigs. But then, scientists believed that the age patterns of about 10 thousand. Years and since then have not tried to estimate it using the more accurate methods.

Not so long ago a group of Australian and Indonesian scientists, led by archaeologist Maxim Aubert from Griffith University in Queensland (Australia) has used high-precision uranium-thorium dating method, says the magazine Nature.

The examination showed that the most ancient of the found stereotyped images of the hand, at least 39 9 th. years, that is, it created two thousand years before the oldest of similar images found in the same Evrope.Vozrast one of the drawings of wild pigs determined 35, 4 th. years.

Found artifacts, scientists believe, will serve as confirmation of the hypothesis that the earliest cave paintings were made by people on opposite ends of the Eurasian world.

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