Lubang Jeriji Saléh
Limestone cave with ancient hand stencils and bovine paintings, Indonesia
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Lubang Jeriji Saléh
1.2415° N, 117.3291° E
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Lubang Jeriji Saleh is a limestone cave complex in Indonesia in the Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst, located in the remote jungle of Bengalon district in East Kutai, East Kalimantan province on Borneo island. In a 2018 publication, a team of researchers announced to have found the then-oldest known work of figurative art on the world among the cave paintings, at 40,000 years old. However, the same team has since found and dated an elaborate therianthrope rock art panel in the Leang Bulu' Sipong 4 cave in Sulawesi's Maros-Pangkep karst to around 44,000 years ago.
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Initial exploration
1994
Formal discovery of Lubang Jeriji Saleh
September 1998
Early dating published
2003
World‑leading dating results announced
2018
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