In 2021, the oldest known cave art depicting the animal kingdom was discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The paintings on the Indonesian island are over 45,500 years old, and feature three pigs alongside the stencilled outlines of the hands of their prehistoric painter.
In this subscriber episode of The Ancients Tristan picks out another of his favourite moments from archive. This time it is from his interview with Adam Brumm about a dramatic new discovery that changed what we knew about prehistoric human settlement in South-East Asia.
If you have any suggestions for more moments that Tristan could cover, or any favourite interviews you want to hear again then please get in touch at theancients@historyhit.com.
This episode was produced and edited by Joseph Knight. Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie.
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