Recently, archaeologists discovered a rock painting in Sulawesi, Indonesia, dated to approximately 67,800 years ago—making it the world’s oldest known figurative artwork to date. The painting depicts a wild pig rendered in reddish-brown pigment and is remarkably well-preserved. Researchers used uranium-series dating to analyze calcite deposits that had formed over the artwork, allowing them to determine its age. This finding pushes back the timeline of human figurative art by tens of thousands of years and challenges the long-held view that Europe was the cradle of prehistoric art. Previously, the oldest known figurative cave art was found in Spain and dated to around 44,000 years ago. The Indonesian discovery suggests that early Homo sapiens—and possibly even earlier hominins—in Southeast Asia already possessed advanced symbolic thinking and artistic expression capabilities. The study was published in the prestigious journal Science Advances, offering crucial insights into the evolution of human cognition and the origins of culture.
近日，考古学家在印度尼西亚苏拉威西岛发现了一幅距今约6.78万年的岩画，这是目前已知世界上最古老的具象岩画。这幅岩画描绘了一头野猪的形象，采用红褐色颜料绘制，保存相对完好。研究团队通过铀系测年法对覆盖在岩画表面的方解石沉积物进行分析，从而确定了其年代。这一发现不仅将人类具象艺术的历史向前推进了数千年，也挑战了长期以来认为欧洲是史前艺术发源地的传统观点。此前最古老的岩画发现于西班牙，距今约4.4万年。印尼此次发现表明，早期智人甚至可能更早的人类祖先在亚洲地区已具备复杂的象征性思维和艺术表达能力。该成果发表于国际权威期刊《科学进展》（Science Advances），为理解人类认知演化和文化起源提供了关键证据。
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