Bear DNA is clue to age of Chauvet cave art. By Michael Marshall. 19 April 2011 ... Two years later they argued that the cave walls were still chemically active, ...

While encroaching human development has significantly reduced the cave’s population, many thousands of bats once packed the cave’s walls and ceiling, covering surfaces with layers of guano.

In late 2019 Aubert and his colleagues dated a Sulawesi cave painting depicting a hunting scene to at least 43,900 years ago—the oldest known painting in the region at the time. On supporting ...

A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the oldest—known figurative art piece in the archaeological record.

In limestone caves hidden deep in the jungle of Borneo, archaeologists have discovered the oldest known figurative drawing created by a human artist, dating back at least 40,000 years.

A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old. The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears ...

It’s a painting of a warty pig, an animal still found on Sulawesi, that was rendered on the cave’s back wall at least 45,500 years ago, researchers report January 13 in Science Advances.

MAROS, Indonesia, June 9 (Reuters) - A cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, believed to be the world's oldest, is decaying at a rapid pace because of salt erosion likely caused by ...

The cave is on private property as part of the Thousand Trails Bear Cave RV Resort. But the resort allows public tours for $3. The cave walls are 18-feet thick and made of tufa limestone.