The Warty Pig That Sustained Us: Tracing an Ancient Bond Through the World’s Oldest Art

Oldest Art

When researchers entered the limestone chambers of Sulawesi’s Maros-Pangkep region, it wasn’t just the human figures painted on the walls that transformed our understanding of early imagination – it was the animals.   Hidden beneath layers of mineral deposits, researchers uncovered a vivid ochre scene anchored by a powerful Sulawesi warty pig, its form rendered with […]