Ancient Art of Tassili n’Ajjer: 12,000-Year-Old Window into Sahara’s Past

Discover the ancient cave paintings of Tassili n’Ajjer in Algeria’s Sahara Desert, a UNESCO World Heritage Site featuring over 15,000 prehistoric artworks. These stunning engravings and drawings, dating back 12,000 years, reveal insights into early human life, climate change, and the region’s once-lush environment. Explore this lunar-like landscape of sandstone formations and humanity’s enduring creativity.

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/01/03/ancient-art-of-tassili-najjer-12000-year-old-window-into-saharas-past/

#paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger's 12-min #TEDtalk journeys deep into #ancient #caves to glimpse the #origins of #human #consciousness & #culture. The #artworks she studies #communicate eloquently to us, across tens of thousands of years, across #eons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnEQCMA5Sg 2015 Dec 18
https://TED.com/speakers/genevieve_von_petzinger … #GenevieveVonPetzinger
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoanthropology … #Paleoanthropology

#cavePainting #cavePainter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting

This flaking red-coloured #CavePainting of three people around a big pig discovered in #Indonesia might be the oldest #narrative artwork humans created, about 51,000 years ago as a new study suggests:

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-world-oldest-artwork-indonesian-cave.html

The world's oldest cave paintings are in Indonesia, and the oldest is 51,200 years old. (The runner-up, 6 miles away, is 45,500 years old.)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/worlds-oldest-cave-painting-least-51200-years-old-scientists-say-rcna160304

It may not look like much – just a flaking image of three people around a big red pig.

But the humble #CavePainting discovered in #Indonesia is the oldest known narrative artwork ever made by human hands, dating back more than 51,000 years, new research said on July 3. #Archeology #Art

World’s oldest #Artwork discovered in Indonesian cave
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/worlds-oldest-artwork-discovered-in-indonesian-cave

World’s oldest cave painting scene found in Indonesia, scientists say - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/OXluq

Altamira is a Paleolithic cave located in Santillana del Mar (Cantabria region) in northern Spain, containing prehistoric paintings. https://www.worldhistory.org/Altamira/ #History #Altamira #CaveArt #CavePainting

Cave Doodle 20230311. Marker on card. Sat in a pub doing some drawing. #negativespace #drawing #cavepainting

#Mystery of #CavePainting #symbols solved
https://www.dw.com/en/mystery-of-cave-painting-symbols-solved/video-64485159
"European hunter-gatherers painted cave walls for tens of thousands of years. Some of those pictures are marked with #symbols. Their meaning was a mystery until a researcher recently figured out how they formed a lunar #calendar."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64162799

This is awesome. 'Guy off the street' in London collaborates with Professors at two universities to decode the dot marks on prehistoric cave paintings.

You could make this up

World's oldest Animation

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-oldest-animations-stretch-all-the-way-back-to-cave-times

The Cave of Forgotten Memories
(Please full zoom to see all the details, it is a very big image)
#art #mastoart #illustration #cavepainting #cave #fantasy #oc #originalart #originalcharacter

Set your alarms for tomorrow, Monday 9pm GMT
#cavepainting

Climate change is erasing humanity’s oldest art - Enlarge / Detailed rock-art recording by ARKENAS archaeologist in Maros-Pangkep. ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1765735 #culturalheritage #climatechange #cavepainting #conservation #aquaculture #archaeology #pleistocene #indonesia #sulawesi #science #caveart #rockart

Cave Art – More
Among the most popular posts on Green Comet is the Cave Art series, parts One, Two and Three. They make a nice summary of the state of t
https://greencomet.org/2013/05/28/cave-art-more/
#Uncategorized #caveart #cavepainting