Possibility that the oldest `` story '' of mankind is recorded in the mural drawn 44,000 years ago
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Earliest hunting scene in prehistoric art | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1806-y
A 43,900-year-old cave painting is the oldest story ever recorded | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/a-43900-year-old-cave-painting-is-the-oldest-story-ever-recorded/
In the mural, a small hunter (Ther) drawn in dark red is facing a buffalo (Anoa) and a pig (Pig) called Anoa . At the end of the mural was a hand stencils as if an ancient artist had signed it.
From the minerals deposited on the mural, it is estimated that the mural was painted at least 43,900 years ago. At first glance, the picture of hunters with weapons such as spears fighting beasts in groups seems to be a record of hunting, but Ober et al.'S research team said, “The mural is more than the record of hunting. It means 'thing'.
“Most of the murals may not be real events,” Ober says. The hunters drawn on the murals are far from human appearance, and there are strangely elongated faces reminiscent of the mouth and nose of animals, as well as hunters that appear to have tails and beaks
In addition, the beasts that fight hunters also look very different from reality. About 43,900 years ago, Anoa's height is about 100cm, and the height of wild pigs that lived in Indonesia is considered to be about 60cm. However, the animals on the mural are drawn many times larger than the hunters, so it is speculated that the murals depict 'fictional stories', not real ones.
In the vicinity of the cave where the mural was found, no traces of human life were found, such as stone tools, bones, and fire marks. In addition, because the cave was located on a cliff about 20m above the valley floor and was in a place where humans could not easily enter and exit, Obert et al. Said the cave where the mural was found was for those who lived nearby I guessed it could have been a sacred or important place.
There is no way to clearly know what the hunters and the huge prey depicted in the mural mean and what the mural was for the Sulawesi people. The vision of the future drawn by the leaders at the time, the theory that they wrote legends believed by the people at the time, the theory that they conveyed something important about the relationship between humans and animals, or predators and prey Can also be considered.
The most promising is the hypothesis that “At the time the mural was drawn, humans thought about the power of nature that does not exist physically and suggested that the ability to speak was at a stage of development”. In order to explain and imagine things that no one has ever seen, such as huge wild animals, human beings at that time have evolved into the `` stage where the concept of fiction is born '' Must be. “The evolution of the ability to create fictional stories may have been the most important stage in the evolution of human language and cognition,” Obert said.
This theory shows that the theory that some anthropologists once advocated, “the story of art and mythology spread from Europe to the world” is wrong. The world's oldest cave painting is an abstract painting that was said to have been drawn by Neanderthals in Spain about 65,000 years ago, but the oldest mural that clearly shows that it is some kind of painting was drawn about 40,000 years ago It is said to be a picture of a Kalimantan cow. A mural depicting a pig in another cave on Sulawesi Island is estimated to have been painted about 35,400 years ago.
A cave mural more than 60,000 years ago was discovered and turned out to be an art work by Neanderthals-GIGAZINE
by Erich Ferdinand
In Sulawesi's cave, at least 242 murals have been discovered, but many remain unexamined at the time of article creation, so if the investigation proceeds, older murals may be discovered . “We will continue to explore Sulawesi and the larger area,” Obert said.
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