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Art on the move

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Studies of stencils and paintings from prehistoric caves in Indonesia date the art to at least 39,900 years ago — around the same age as the earliest cave art previously known, 13,000 kilometres away in western Europe. See Letter p.223

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  1. Wil Roebroeks is in the Human Origins group, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.,

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