Sixty-eight thousand years ago, in the humid dark of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Muna, a human being pressed their hand against the cold wall. They took a mouthful of red pigment and ...

Scientists have discovered what may be the world's oldest cave art. Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia are believed to date back to at least 67,800 years ago. The ...

Tens of thousands of years ago in what is now Indonesia, a human made their mark by placing their hand upon a cave wall. A new study from a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers say these ...