First pocket-sized artworks from Ice Age Indonesia show humanity's ancient drive to decorate
Andrew Thomson, Author provided
Archaeologists have unearthed two miniature stone engravings in Indonesia. These depict an anoa (dwarf buffalo) and a sun, star or eye dating back some 26,000 years – the first of their kind in our region.
While such tiny engravings have been known from similar periods (around 20,000 years ago) in Europe and...




