Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months ago

World's oldest cave art found in Indonesia showing humans and pig

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World's oldest cave art found in Indonesia showing humans and pig

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Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months ago

The oldest example of cave art has been discovered on an Indonesian island and dated back 51,200 years.

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more…

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