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44,000-year-old hunting scene is earliest painted ‘story’ ever found

11 December 2019

Cave paintings discovered in Indonesia reveal ancient artists were conjuring imagined scenes 20,000 years earlier than we thought – but who painted them?

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44,000-year-old hunting scene is earliest painted ‘story’ ever found

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