67,800-Year-Old Indonesian Hand Stencil Suggests Early Human Art and Migration
TL;DR
A hand stencil from Liang Metanduno cave in Indonesia is dated to at least 67,800 years ago using U-series dating, making it the oldest reliably dated rock art and implying early Homo sapiens used symbolic art and may have carried cultural practices across migration routes toward Sahul.
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