The world’s oldest known cave painting was discovered in Cave Leang Tedongnge dating back to more than 45,500 years. It was found in 2017 by doctoral student Basran Burhan.
- The Leang Tedongnge cave painting in the central Indonesian island depicts a wild boar endemic to the Sulawesi island of Indonesia.
- The cave is situated between Asia and Australia and has a long history of human occupation.
- The Sulawesi warty pig seems to be the world’s oldest surviving representational image of an animal.
- The painting was made using red ochre pigment and depicts a pig with a short crest of upright hairs and a pair of horn-like facial warts in front of the eye.
- Sulawesi is the largest island (174,000 km2) in Wallacea, a biogeographically distinct zone of oceanic islands situated between continental Asia and Australia.
