Ancient rock art discovery across Asia

A naturalistic painting of a deer at a rock art site
near Siem Reap, Cambodia
is the oldest painting of the region . (photo: Paul Taçon).

Latest research on the oldest surviving rock art of Southeast Asia shows that the region’s first people, hunter-gatherers who arrived over 50,000 years ago, brought with them a rich art practice.

Published this week in the archaeological journal Antiquity, the research shows that these earliest people skilfully produced paintings of animals in rock shelters from southwest China to Indonesia. Besides these countries, early sites were also recorded in Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia.

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