{"id":3198,"date":"2014-10-08T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2014-10-08T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T17:27:36","slug":"rock-art-of-ages-cave-paintings-from-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/rock-art-of-ages-cave-paintings-from-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock art of ages &#8211; cave paintings from Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3199\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PRAS03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3199\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3199\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PRAS03.jpg\" alt=\"Hand stencils like these from a cave in Indonesia have been dated to at least 39,900 years old, making them the oldest known tracings of the human hand. (Photo credit: Kinez Riza)\" width=\"350\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PRAS03.jpg 350w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PRAS03-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hand stencils like these from a cave in Indonesia have been dated to at least 39,900 years old, making them the oldest known tracings of the human hand. (Photo credit: Kinez Riza)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cave paintings on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date back nearly 40,000 years, on par with the oldest known human artwork from caves in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The paintings include stencils of hands that date back as far as 39,900 years ago, making them the oldest known hand stencils. The paintings also include representations of a babirusa, a pig-like animal found in Indonesia. T<\/p>\n<p>he discovery shows that art was widespread among early modern humans, though further investigation will be needed to show whether it arose independently in different regions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nature13422\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>October 8,\u00a02014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Maxime Aubert, Griffith University, Australia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cave paintings on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date back nearly 40,000 years, on par with the oldest known human artwork from caves in Europe. The paintings include stencils of hands that date back as far as 39,900 years ago, making them the oldest known hand stencils. The paintings also include representations of a babirusa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1851,917,1812,1647],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-anthropology","tag-evolution","tag-history","tag-human-behaviour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PRAS03.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-PA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3203,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}