The oldest rock art in Asia and the early human occupation of island Southeast Asia

亚洲最古老的岩画和早期人类占领东南亚岛屿

• 批准号: DE140100254
• 负责人: Prof Maxime Aubert
• 金额: $ 27.63万
• 依托单位: Griffith University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2017-05-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE140100254
• 关键词: oldest; rock; art; Asia; early

Recent research revealed that humans were producing rock paintings on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi at least 39 thousand years ago (and possibly up to 46 thousand years ago). The rock art, therefore, is essentially contemporaneous with the earliest cave art in Europe and may be the world's oldest, given the arrival of Homo sapiens in Australia at least 50 thousand years ago. This project will further investigate the early rock art of Sulawesi as well as other key Indonesian islands located along likely migration routes from Borneo to New Guinea. The results will have major implications for our understanding of the cultural behaviour and dispersal of the earliest modern humans to colonise Southeast Asia and Australia.

最近的研究表明，人类至少在 3.9 万年前（可能长达 4.6 万年前）就在印度尼西亚苏拉威西岛制作岩画。因此，岩画基本上与欧洲最早的洞穴艺术同时期，并且可能是世界上最古老的岩画，因为智人至少在五万年前就抵达了澳大利亚。该项目将进一步调查苏拉威西岛以及位于婆罗洲到新几内亚可能迁徙路线沿线的其他主要印度尼西亚岛屿的早期岩石艺术。这些结果将对我们理解最早殖民东南亚和澳大利亚的现代人类的文化行为和扩散产生重大影响。