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Like Europe, Borneo hosted Stone Age cave artists

Animal figures and hand stencils are as old and complex as rock art found in Spain

cave painting of red animal in Borneo

OLD PAINT A reddish-orange animal, lower left, painted on a cave wall in Borneo dates to at least  40,000 years ago, scientists say.

Luc-Henri Fage

By Bruce Bower

- More than 2 years ago

Discoveries on the island of Borneo illustrate that cave art emerged in Southeast Asia as early as in Western Europe, and with comparable complexity, researchers say.