Massive Petrified Bone Carved Owl
New find: Large Petrified Bone Carved Owl Primary figure is an owl. Additional animals include a large snake, fish and more once fully analyzed.
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Yelling Brave
Fossilized bone - side profile of a brave looking right. The red polished area is a well fed man standing up with his mouth open like he's yelling and he has a headdress and or feathers on his head.
Some of the earliest cave art
Using a novel technique called laser ablation U-series (LA-U-series), archaeologists have re-dated some of the earliest cave art in the Maros-Pangkep region of South Sulawesi and determined the age of stylistically similar motifs at other Maros-Pangkep sites. Nestled high on a rocky cliff and accessible through a narrow passage, a remarkable painting has been uncovered, identified by archaeologists as the oldest known example of narrative art in history. This artwork, found in the limestone cave of Leang Karampuang in the Maros Pangkep region of South Sulawesi, depicts three human-like figures engaged with a wild pig. According to a study published in the journal *Nature*, the painting, created with red pigment, dates back at least 51,200 years. This discovery adds to a growing body of prehistoric art found in the area's intriguing limestone caves. The same study re-evaluated another scene featuring part human, part animal figures hunting warty pigs and dwarf buffaloes, determinin...