The oldest cave paintings on earth are found in East Kalimantan Indonesia

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The Indonesian archaeologist team managed to uncover a series of 40,000 year old cave paintings, hidden behind a cluster of remote karst mountains, on the Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Peninsula, East Kalimantan.

on previous findings. The Archeology Team has conducted the Liyangan Site research since 2010. Over the past eight years, there have been three areas identified in the site area. Each is: temple or worship area, residential area, and agricultural area. The boundaries between the three are not firm. But, "The location of our temple is zero. So (every) measurement from there, "said Sugeng.

This finding begins with a research survey which this year focused outside the area of worship. The plan is for the team to develop excavations in a 15 meter x 1.5 meter long boulder structure found in 2012.

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After examining it with a geometric dating method, this image is known to be 40 thousand years old and declared to be the oldest figurative art found on the face of the earth.

The Indonesian archaeologist team managed to uncover a series of 40,000 year old cave paintings, hidden behind a cluster of remote karst mountains, on the Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Peninsula, East Kalimantan.

The head of the National Archaeological Research Center (Arkernas) Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendikbud) I Made Geria said the findings confirm that rock images are not only found in Europe, but also on mainland Asia.

Precisely in Kalimantan, the region which in the ice age was the eastern part of the Eurasian Continent with an area of about 13,000 kilometers (km).

"The potential for past civilization remains to be seen as cultural capital or cultural capital to advance regional cultural wealth and Indonesia," he said in Jakarta on Thursday.

Intensive research on rock images began in 2014.

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The researchers also managed to detect the age of two orange red hand strokes, which is around 37,000 years. A third hand stroke - which tends to be abstract rather than figurative - is estimated to be 51,800 years old, even older than the animal's paintings.

The researchers concluded that the art in the cave was developed locally in Kalimantan between around 52,000 and 40,000 years ago.

The second stage of the painting in the cave is marked by the use of purple paint, and is estimated to be between 16,000 and 21,000 years ago. This phase includes several depictions of real human beings.

Prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux and Chauvet in France, and Altamira in Spain, are also extraordinary works of art. The painting in the cave shows a real prehistoric zoo, including lions, hyenas, horses, deer, rhinos and bison caves.

But a paper published earlier this year in the journal Science confirms that cave art in Europe is around 65,000 years old.