In case you missed it, Australian and Indonesian scientists have found the world's oldest known figurative art: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of a cave in Borneo. The cave painting is at least 40,000 years old, slightly older than similar animal drawings found in famous caves in France and Spain.
Until a few years ago, experts believed Europe was where our ancestors started drawing animals and other figures. But the age of the paintings reported on Nov 7 in the journal Nature, along with previous discoveries in Southeast Asia, suggest that cave art appeared in both continents about the same time.