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.
#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
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
