Artwork in Indonesia is More Than 51,000 Years Old

“”It is the oldest evidence we have for storytelling. It shows that humans at the time had the capacity to think in abstract terms,” he explained.”

Very cool, and definitely fits the ‘abstract’ style of artwork, at least at this point, based on my thorough understanding of art. Perhaps it wasn’t as abstract when first painted, though.

Representational art discovered in a cave on Karampuang Hill on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago by a team of researchers led by Adhi Agus Oktaviana of Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency

They know it's genuine because they also found a Certificate of Authenticity.

led by Adhi Agus Oktaviana of Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency

Can we get some Western experts to validate this date? Very often these local officials exaggerate the importance of artifacts in their own country. I would be more comfortable with the 51,000 year estimate if someone from Western Europe or North America confirms it.

Why could Joe Biden not have done this drawing the other day? It seems to me that the age given of so many things nowadays is nothing but a guess anyway. Yes, I know they use scientific means to determine them, but none of these long term guesses agree with what what the Bible seems to say about the age of the earth. So did these things happen according to someone’s imagination or what?

Here’s my theory on ‘cave art’:

It’s not ‘art’.

Who has time to decorate the inside of the cave?

The cave WOMEN.

These so-called cave art drawings are actually paleolithic “SHOPPING LISTS”.

They are INSTRUCTIONS to the CAVE MEN on what to bring home for dinner.

And some even have instructions on HOW to do it....................

I guess it would depend on if you “think” the Bible says the earth is young or old.

I read it that in the beginning(whenever that was) God created it. At some point in time, later, the earth was void and without form. So how much time passed and what went on here between it being created and when it became void and without form? Who knows.

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