First pocket-sized artworks from Ice Age Indonesia show humanity's ancient drive to decorate
- Written by Michelle Langley, Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University
Andrew Thomson, Author provided
Archaeologists have unearthed two miniature stone engravings in Indonesia. These depict an anoa (dwarf buffalo) and a sun, star or eye dating back some 26,000 years – the first of their kind in our region.
While such tiny engravings have been known from similar periods (around 20,000 years ago) in Europe and...