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Extreme weather is rapidly destroying the limestone caves where people drew images first about 40,000 years ago.

Climate Change Is Erasing Humanity’s Oldest Art Kiona N. Smith © Jumadil Awal Indonesia's Maros-Pangkep Karst Forest is a UNESCO Heritage Site currently under threat. The limestone caves and rock shelters of Indonesia's southern Sulawesi island hold the oldest traces of human art and storytelling, dating back more than 40,000 years. Paintings adorn the walls of at least 300 sites in the karst hills of Maros-Pangkep, with more almost certainly waiting to be rediscovered. But archaeologists say humanity's oldest art is crumbling before their very eyes. "We have recorded rap...

Extreme weather is rapidly eroding the limestone caves where people first drew images 40,000 years ago.

Disappearing ancient Indonesian rock art Cave weathering is accelerating in pace with climate change, study finds. Study lead Dr Huntley examines art panel exfoliation. Credit: Linda Siagian. Some of the world’s earliest known cave art in Indonesia is “weathering at an alarming rate”, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. Researchers suggest the disappearing Indonesian rock art is correlated with volatile weather patterns caused by anthropogenic climate change. Advanced decay of recently discovered rock art at Leang Tedongnge. This Warty Pig is part of a panel dated to ...

Climate crisis is damaging the world's oldest cave art CNN 3 hrs ago © Linda Siagian via Griffith University The stencilled handprints were made almost 40,000 years ago. The handprints on the ceiling of an Indonesian cave are among the earliest known to archaeologists and date back 39,000 years. Stenciled with red pigments, the drawings make the ancient humans who placed their palms on the cool cave so long ago feel tantalizingly close. In a cave nearby is the oldest known depiction of an animal -- an endearing warty pig. The art in the limestone caves in this region of southern Sulawe...