Leang Tedongnge, 5 Sulawesi Island

• This cave painting uncovered in South Sulawesi consists of a life-sized depiction of a warty pig.
• It shows a pig with a short crest of upright hairs and a pair of horn-like facial warts in front of the eyes, a characteristic feature of adult male Sulawesi warty pigs.
• The previously oldest dated rock art ‘scene’ at least 43,900 years old, was a depiction of hybrid human-animal beings hunting Sulawesi warty pigs and dwarf bovids.

Why in news?

Very recently, world’s oldest known cave painting was found in the limestone cave of Leang Tedongnge, Indonesia. It was painted in around 45000 years ago.