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- Some southeastern cave art is quite ancient. The oldest cave art sites date to some 6,500 years ago, during the Archaic Period (10,000 B.C.–1000 B.C.).
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Sep 29, 2021 · Some southeastern cave art is quite ancient. The oldest cave art sites date to some 6,500 years ago, during the Archaic Period (10,000-1000 B.C.).
- Jan Simek
Oct 14, 2021 · In recent years, researchers have realized that cave art has strong connections to the historic tribes that occupied the Southeast at the time of European invasion. In several caves in Alabama and Tennessee, mid-19th-century inscriptions were written on cave walls in the Cherokee syllabary.
Nov 7, 2018 · Cave paintings in remote mountains in Borneo have been dated to at least 40,000 years ago – much earlier than first thought – according to a study published today in Nature.
Jun 30, 2021 · Prehistoric inhabitants of the Philippines have been drawing on cave walls 1,500 years before Christ was born. The cave drawings were discovered in Peñablanca town, Cagayan, and have just been confirmed to be 3,500 years old —making them the oldest directly dated rock art in Southeast Asia.
Oct 26, 2021 · Some southeastern cave art is quite ancient. The oldest cave art sites date to some 6,500 years ago, during the Archaic Period (10,000 B.C.–1000 B.C.). These early sites are rare and seem to be clustered on the modern Kentucky-Tennessee state line. Imagery was simple and often abstract, although representational pictures do exist.
Nov 7, 2018 · 40,000-year-old cave art may be world's oldest animal drawing. The Southeast Asian island of Borneo joins a growing number of sites boasting early cave art innovation.
Jul 3, 2024 · A cave art scene at Leang Karampuang, Indonesia, dated to at least 51,200 years ago using laser-ablation uranium-series imaging, depicts human-like figures interacting with a pig.
