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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29415716
Cave paintings on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia have been dated to at least 40,000 years ago, the same age and in the same style as some of the earliest known cave paintings in Spain.
Previously the theory had been that humans in Europe developed art, which then spread across the globe.
Now it looks as though human art was a development of something earlier and elsewhere.
Cave paintings on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia have been dated to at least 40,000 years ago, the same age and in the same style as some of the earliest known cave paintings in Spain.
Previously the theory had been that humans in Europe developed art, which then spread across the globe.
Now it looks as though human art was a development of something earlier and elsewhere.
The discovery of 40,000-year-old cave paintings at opposite ends of the globe suggests that the ability to create representational art had its origins further back in time in Africa, before modern humans spread across the rest of the world.
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