Archaeologists Claim Pig Painting in Indonesian Cave Is World’s Oldest Figurative Artwork

As a craze for contemporary figurative painting continues on in the art world, archaeologists have uncovered what may be the world’s oldest representational artwork. In a new study published on Wednesday by Science Advances, a team of experts claims that a pig painting discovered in a cave in Sulawesi, an Indonesian island, is at least 45,500 years old, making it the oldest known figurative work ever found.
Although the painting, which features a pig with a protruding belly alongside two f