Tag: cave art
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Indonesia’s Hand Stencils May Be World’s Oldest Cave Art
Introduction: A Potential Leap in Prehistoric Art In a discovery that could rewrite our understanding of early human creativity, scientists have identified handprint stencils on cave walls in a little-explored region of Indonesia. Preliminary dating suggests these tan-colored prints could be at least 67,800 years old, making them potentially the oldest known cave art. The…
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Oldest Cave Art? Hand Stencils Found in Indonesian Cave Redraw Our Prehistoric Timeline
New Discovery Rewrites the Timeline of Cave Art In a breakthrough that could shift our understanding of early human creativity, researchers from Australia and Indonesia report that faint ochre hand stencils found in a remote Indonesian cave may be the oldest known cave art. The discovery, based on careful dating and stylistic analysis, adds a…
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Indonesian Hand Stencils: Earliest Cave Art Revealed
Discovery of the Hand Stencils In a remote limestone cave on a speck of Indonesia’s vast archipelago, researchers uncovered a pattern of faint ochre hand stencils pressed against weathered rock. The marks, created when a hand was pressed flat to a wall and pigments rubbed or blown around the fingers, are among the oldest known…
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Training AI to Identify Ancient Artists: Griffith’s Digital Archaeology Approach to Finger Fluting
Introduction: A new frontier in understanding ancient hands Researchers at Griffith are exploring whether modern artificial intelligence can help identify the gender of ancient cave artists by studying finger flutings—one of the oldest forms of rock art. Finger flutings are marks formed when a finger strokes a soft mineral film called moonmilk on cave walls.…
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Training AI to Identify Ancient Artists: Griffith’s Digital Archaeology of Finger Fluting
Introduction: A New Frontier in Digital Archaeology Researchers at Griffith’s Centre for Social and Cultural Research have piloted a digital archaeology framework to explore who created ancient finger flutings in cave walls. Finger fluting, marks made by fingers through a soft mineral film called moonmilk, is one of the oldest forms of rock art known…