A Warty Pig Painted on a Cave Wall 45,500 Years Ago is the World's Oldest Depiction of an Animal - CNN

The pig that's "warty" in this story is not an unattractive individual porker; it's an actual species and its depiction in an Indonesian scene challenges Eurocentric views of the beginnings of artistic expression. And the research team announcing this find expects "even more significant discoveries," per Katie Hunt. On the other hand, Jocelyne LeBlanc reports that The Stone Age May Have Lasted 20,000 Years Later Than Previously Thought in some parts of western Africa. Extrapolating "from discoveries in small parts of eastern and southern Africa" may be a flawed strategy. If that's not surprising, try Benjamin Plackett's answer to Why was Stonehenge Built? "Your guess is as good as anyone's," his scientist sources say, and when Plackett adds that "technically speaking, Stonehenge isn't even a henge," the ground starts falling away from under us. One historian feels the Stonehenge mystery has "a sort of magic in the not knowing," cueing up Nick Redfern's story about Ancient Stones: Mysterious Connections and Strange Creatures. At certain English megalithic sites you might confront some of the ancient builders themselves! (WM)

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