For the longest time, the assumption has been that the cave paintings of southern Europe indicate an artistic revolution that happened when humans got to Europe.
To the surprise of absolutely no one who has been paying attention to archeology's big picture, some artworks in Indonesia, when someone gets around to dating them, prove to be even older.
Yup. That's how it works. If we had the first piece of art, it would hail from Africa. Like everything else human.
We really, seriously, need to get used to that.
Nothing is more human than art. If there's art, there's a human. If there's humans, there's art. Count on it.
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