c. 43,000 BCE
Art & Culture
Southeast Asia
Sulawesi cave art
Ochre paintings of warty pigs and hunting scenes rank among the oldest figurative art known.
Why it mattered
Shows that image-making arose independently across widely separated regions.
Stone Age
43,000 BCE
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