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WASHINGTON (AP) – oldest image of animal in a cave in Borneo are the scientists have found the oldest known specimen of animal representation: the Red silhouette of a mammal similar to a bull on the wall of a remote cave in Indonesia . At least 40,000 years drawing is somewhat older than similar ones found in the famous caves of Spain and France. Until a few years ago, experts believed that it was in Europe where our ancestors made the first drawings of animals and other figures, but the age of the drawing which was reported Wednesday in the journal Nature and other findings in Southeast Asia suggest that figurative art appeared on two continents approximately at the same time. The new findings give impetus to discussions about if they were made historical or evolutionary which gave rise to this “rise of human creativity”, said the author main study, Maxime Aubert, archaeologist and geochemical of the Griffith University in Australia.

The prehistoric drawings in remote caves of Borneo was known since the 1990s. To reach them, Aubert and his team had their way in the dense jungle machete blows.

With hulls of Miner to dispel darkness, they walked and reptaron by thousands of caves decorated with hundreds of designs in search of any work which could be dated. They needed to find certain deposits to determine their age by means of technology that measures the disintegration of uranium.” In most of the paintings we can not take samples”, said Aubert.Aubert and his collaborators reported in 2014 on rock art found in the neighboring island of Sulawesi. They dated stencils of hands, created by blowing a red ink through a tube to capture the outline of a hand tight against the rock, to almost 40,000 years ago. Now, with the rock art of Borneo, scientists can assemble a rough chronology of the development of art in the region. In addition to del toro, a meter and a half wide, they dated red stencils and purple hands and drawings of human scenes. 14,000 years ago, the inhabitants of the cave began to draw human figures to hunt and dance, often with large headdresses. The caves of Europe warns a similar transition in the themes of rock art. Borneo island was connected to mainland Southeast Asia when the first figurative drawings were 40,000 years ago, more or less at the same time that the first modern humans arrived in Europe. The oldest animal in the French Cave of Chavet drawings are between 33.500 and 37,000 years ago. It is not clear if the new waves of people who migrated from Africa brought with them the figurative rock art or if these arts emerged subsequently. Scientists have partially determined the overall chronology of rock art. The oldest specimens have been found in Africa and include abstract designs, like stripes cross of 73,000 years ago. In the next stage of research in Indonesia excavations will be carried out to learn more about the people who made the drawings. Already, some places have been identified with human bones, prehistoric jewelry and remains of small animals. As for the Red Bull, its meaning is still a mystery.” “We believe that it was not just a food: had a special meaning for them”, said Aubert.En this note:



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