It's only the oldest for purposes of simplifying pedagogy in scientific education. In reality the error bars on half a dozen of the "oldest" cave art in the wor

It's only the oldest for purposes of simplifying pedagogy in scientific education. In reality the error bars on half a dozen of the "oldest" cave art in the world overlap so much that it's impossible to really conclude which one was older. There are even older works of art but they're more like patterns and abstract scribbles than what we would consider drawings. I do believe the Indonesian cave painting have the distinction of being the oldest known art with distinct animal figures.