CAGAR BUDAYA
Beautiful Prehistoric Rock Art in P
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rehistoric rock art is a relic of
thousands or even tens of thousands of
a painting of a pig in Leang Timpuseng,
early human art found all over the
years old. However, most of the rock arts
Maros, South Sulawesi. The painting is
world. The term rock art is used
in the world are not recognised as a pure
estimated to be around 35,400 years old.
to describe a work of art in the form of
relic of prehistoric times by local people.
Another one is a painting of an animal
a painting, sculpture, or a sketch that is
Based on observations made by modern
resembling a bull in Saleh Jeriji Hole (East
inscribed in an immovable place, such as
science in the 19th-20th centuries AD, the
Kutai, East Kalimantan), which is believed
on the walls of a cave, cliff, or boulder. In
indigenous people of Australia and Amer-
to be around 40,000 years old. Further-
general, rock art is made by traditional
ica are peoples who are still practising the
more, there is the painting of scenes
hunter-gatherer communities, although
tradition of rock art.
depicting hunting activities in Leang Bulu
there are some rock arts originating from farming communities or cultivators. Laboratory analysis of rock art painting materials shows that these paintings are
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Sipong 4, Maros-Pangkep Region, South It was only in recent years that Indone-
Sulawesi, that is believed to be around
sian prehistoric rock arts began to attract
43,900 years old. The results of the study
international attention. One of them is
show that during the ice age around
