A nearly 68,000-year-old hand stencil found on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia, may be the oldest rock art ever discovered – and rather than a simple handprint, it appears to have been ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed ...

Indonesia’s vast archipelago is covered with the fingerprints of human history: ancient cave paintings. But on an island just off Sulawesi, archaeologists have now identified the world’s oldest known ...

"The ratio of uranium and thorium in a sheet of calcite suggests that it formed at least 71,000 years ago – so the outline of the hand beneath it must have been left behind sometime before that, ...