{"id":77066,"date":"2021-01-16T13:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T08:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=77066"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:34:30","slug":"oldest-cave-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/oldest-cave-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s oldest known cave painting (a wild pig image) found in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Archaeologists have discovered the world\u2019s oldest known animal cave painting in Indonesia \u2013 a wild pig \u2013 believed to be drawn 45,500 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76944\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wild-pig-image.png?resize=236%2C159&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 85vw, 236px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wild-pig-image.png?w=236&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/wild-pig-image.png?resize=150%2C101&amp;ssl=1 150w\" alt=\" wild pig \" width=\"235\" height=\"158\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Indian Express<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About Cave Painting:\u00a0<\/strong>The cave painting uncovered in South Sulawesi in Indonesia consists of a figurative depiction of a warty pig, a wild boar that is endemic to this Indonesian island.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Technique used:\u00a0<\/strong>The researchers used a technique called uranium-series dating to analyse a mineral formation that overlapped part of the image and that must have formed after the cave art was produced. The mineral formation is at least 45,500 years old suggesting the artwork itself could be much older.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:\u00a0<\/strong>The painting provides the earliest evidence of human settlement of the region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Is it the oldest human produced art?\u00a0<\/strong>The painting may be the world\u2019s oldest art depicting a figure, but it is not the oldest human-produced art. In South Africa, a hashtag-like doodle created 73,000 years ago is believed to be the oldest known drawing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/lifestyle\/art-and-culture\/worlds-oldest-known-cave-painting-wild-pig-found-in-indonesia-7146043\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Article Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0Archaeologists have discovered the world\u2019s oldest known animal cave painting in Indonesia \u2013 a wild pig \u2013 believed to be drawn 45,500 years ago. Facts: Source: Indian Express About Cave Painting:\u00a0The cave painting uncovered in South Sulawesi in Indonesia consists of a figurative depiction of a warty pig, a wild boar that is endemic to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/oldest-cave-painting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World\u2019s oldest known cave painting (a wild pig image) found in Indonesia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":77072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1437,1439,1676],"class_list":["post-77066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","tag-art_1","tag-ir_4","tag-misc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Worlds-oldest-known-cave-painting-a-wild-pig-image-found-in-Indonesia.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704954592},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}