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Pigs, Popcorn and the Origins of Prehistoric Art
This undated painting of a wild pig from a cave in Maros, probably tens of thousands of years old, is one of the few surviving examples of animal depictions from the region. Credit: Kizen Riza
By Adam Brumm & Maxime Aubert
The discovery of 40,000-year-old cave paintings in Indonesia has changed our understanding of the origins of art and modern culture worldwide.
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