Oldest Human Discovered

Oldest cave art discovered in Indonesia

World's oldest cave art — the outline of a hand — found in Indonesia

A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said Wednesday, and sheds light on how humans first migrated to Australia.

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The world’s oldest rock art discovered in Indonesia

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This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art

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Humanity’s oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi

Our research, published today in the journal Nature, reveals people living in what is now eastern Indonesia were producing rock art significantly earlier than previously demonstrated.

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Discovery: World's oldest art record shifts cave site, 15,000 years older than previous find

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The world's oldest cave art: Scientists discover 67,000–year–old painting of a red hand in Indonesia – and it could rewrite the origins of human creativity

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5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was present in the Americas at least 3,000 years earlier than previously thought.

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2-million-year-old fossil may be the oldest example of an early human

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H.

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Homo habilis: The oldest and most complete skeleton discovered to date

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton dating back more than 2 million years.