Found the most ancient rock drawings depicting hunting
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The ancient rock drawings in the world
From time to Time archaeologists have found a very interesting and beautiful drawings made thousands of years ago. For example, in October 2019, we told you about that was found in Pompeii a picture . However, more recently, Australian scientists have found a more interesting picture, which, though not allocated a special beauty and detail, but is considered one of the oldest in the world. According to estimates of researchers, it was painted about 43 900 years ago and shows the process of hunting people to animals. However, some details seem extremely unrealistic scientists — perhaps the ancient artist was a dreamer.
Until now, the oldest picture in the world was considered the image of a bull found in water from the caves of the Indonesian island of Borneo. The study researchers found that the ancient painting was painted red about 40 000 years ago. Near this image the researchers also found traces circled her hands, which were left by Neanderthals, who lived in the same Indonesian cave.
Image red bull on the island of Borneo.
the oldest picture in the world
Rock drawings, found Australian archaeologists led by Robert Maxim, too, was drawn in Indonesia, but the cave is a completely different island called Sulawesi. In this area scientists found a total of 242 of the cave, but the so-called Leang Bulu Sepong 4 was detected only in 2017. According to scientific journal , it is on its back wall, and the researchers found a 4.5-meter tall figure depicting hunters and animals.
Carefully studying the picture of the rock, archaeologists have counted on it 14 figures. Six of them are animals, including researchers recognized two Indonesian warty pigs (Sus celebensis) and the four dwarf Buffalo (Bubalus). The other eight figures represent human-like creatures that have some animal features. One would assume that the ancient artist has depicted to frighten animals, but the presence of beaks and tails hints at the fact that these humanoid creatures had the appearance of small animals. And the ancient people would hardly have used masks defenseless animals in hunting.
figure D depicts a huge Buffalo standing in front of the hunters
In addition, hybrids of humans and animals depicted young, while pigs and buffaloes order of magnitude larger. From this, the researchers concluded that the pattern reflects not a real hunt, and a fantastic story. Most likely, humanoid creatures in the picture are the so-called therianthropy, which are mythical creatures capable of taking the shape of various animals.
In the end, the archaeologists came to the conclusion that the artist has painted a fantastic picture of therianthropes hunting, preying on animals at a special strategy. Judging by the picture, the beasts flee , while some of them kicked them out of hiding, and the other group tries to catch them live on the other side with the help of ropes.
Therefore, found in Indonesia, the figure can be called the most ancient fantastic picture. However, on the Islands there are still a great many other caves, within which archaeologists can find even more interesting petroglyphs.
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