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This ancient cave art is the oldest known 'storytelling'
Art found in Indonesia shows humans with animal characteristics hunting animals with spears and ropes

Reuters, Thomson
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cave-art-indonesia-1.5393624

Publisher:  CBC
Date Written:  12/12/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

A cave painting found on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi, depicting human-like figures hunting animals, appears to be the earliest known pictorial record of storytelling, according to a study by a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers.

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