A nearly 44,000-year-old hunting scene is the oldest known storytelling art
The panel was found in an island cave in Indonesia

This part of a newly described ancient hunting scene includes a miniature buffalo, or anoa (right), facing five faint human-animal figures wielding spears or ropes, a study finds.
M. Aubert et al/Nature 2019, R. Sardi
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