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Leang Bulu' Sipong 4

Limestone cave in the Sulawesi karst whose 4.5-metre hunting panel - therianthropic figures pursuing warty pigs and anoas - is the oldest known narrative scene in world art, predating Europe's famous painted caves by tens of thousands of years.

Dated events and their evidence

• 48,250 BCE mainstream
  hunting panel painted (minimum uranium-series age, laser-ablation re-dating, 50.2 ka) source
• 41,950 BCE mainstream
  hunting panel painted (earlier minimum uranium-series age, superseded by the 2024 re-dating above, 43.9 ka) source

Where

4.9775° S, 119.6314° E

Sources

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07541-7
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31827284/

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