Tag: ancient symbolism
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Handy Work: Indonesia’s Stencil Rock Paintings May Be World’s Oldest Cave Art
Ancient Handprints Reimagined Scientists are rethinking the timeline of human creativity after reporting what may be the world’s oldest known cave art. In a largely unexplored region of Indonesia, researchers found stencil-like handprints on cave walls that are estimated to date back at least 67,800 years. The discovery, announced by a collaboration of Indonesian and…
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Neanderthals’ Crimean Crayons: Ancient Red and Yellow Pigments for Symbolic Art
New light on Neanderthal creativity in Crimea Researchers have uncovered intriguing evidence that Neanderthals in the Crimean region used red and yellow pigments as early “crayons” to create symbolic drawings. The study, which analyzes pigment tools and wear patterns on objects found at Crimean sites, suggests that these ancient people possessed not only practical painting…