Cave painting | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-04

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00:01:36 1 Dating
00:06:27 2 Subjects, themes, and patterns
00:09:05 2.1 Theories and interpretations
00:10:36 3 Paleolithic cave art by region
00:10:47 3.1 Europe
00:14:00 3.2 East and Southeast Asia
00:16:03 3.3 India
00:17:12 3.4 Southern Africa
00:18:06 3.5 Australia
00:19:24 4 Holocene cave art
00:19:49 4.1 Asia
00:20:22 4.2 Horn of Africa
00:21:59 4.3 North Africa
00:23:21 4.4 Southern Africa
00:23:54 4.5 North America
00:25:27 4.6 South America
00:28:23 4.7 Southeast Asia



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Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), 
found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, but cave paintings can also be of recent production: In the Gabarnmung cave of northern Australia, 
the oldest paintings certainly predate 28,000 years ago, while the most recent ones were made less than a century ago.The oldest known cave paintings are over 40,000 years old (art of the Upper Paleolithic), found in both the Franco-Cantabrian region in western Europe, and in the caves in the district of Maros (Sulawesi, Indonesia). The oldest type of cave paintings are hand stencils and simple geometric shapes; the oldest undisputed examples of figurative cave paintings are somewhat younger, close to 35,000 years old.
A 2018 study claimed an age of 64,000 years for the oldest examples of (non-figurative) cave art in Iberia, which would imply production by Neanderthals rather than modern humans. In November 2018, scientists reported the discovery of the oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old, of an unknown animal, in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the Indonesian island of Borneo.