Previously, the oldest-known rock art depicting an animal, a Sulawesi warty pig found in another cave on the island, dated to at least 43,900 years ago, according to a 2019 study published in the ...

The 45,500-year-old ocher painting depicts a Sulawesi warty pig, which appears to be watching a standoff between two other pigs. If that interpretation is correct, the painting is also a contender ...

A second Sulawesi warty pig image, from another cave in the region, was dated to at least 32,000 years ago using the same method in the study that published in the journal Science Advances on ...

Measuring 136 by 54 centimetres (53 by 21 inches) the Sulawesi warty pig was painted using dark red ochre pigment and has a short crest of upright hair, as well as a pair of horn-like facial warts ...

News; Cave pig painting dates back 45,000 years, may be oldest known animal art. Published: ; Jan. 14, 2021, 3:08 p.m.

The older of the two drawings measures 136 centimeters by 54 centimeters (about 4.5 feet by 1.7 feet). It appears to show the Sus celebensis, or Sulawesi warty pig, engaged in some sort of social ...

The painting of a warty pig at the Leang Tedongnge cave site in Indonesia. Image: Maxime Aubert A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the ...

Sulawesi warty pigs’ daily life is equally envy-inducing: They forage in groups in the morning, roll in mud baths in the afternoons, and at night sleep off the fallen fruit they ate for lunch.

A second Sulawesi warty pig image, from another cave in the region, was dated to at least 32,000 years ago using the same method in the study that published in the journal Science Advances on ...