There are a lot of good stories about this being posted today. Rather than make a new submission, I'll mention here another article about the same find that I s

There are a lot of good stories about this being posted today. Rather than make a new submission, I'll mention here another article about the same find that I saw today and liked.[1] For background information about what we knew about paleolithic art before these latest discoveries, I strongly recommend I recommend The Nature of Paleolithic Art[2] by R. Dale Guthrie, a book I enjoyed reading several years ago. Guthrie is a field biologist and very competent visual artist who specializes in Pleistocene megafauna like mammoths. He went to most of the oldest sites of surviving cave art--although, not as far as I know, to the one now described in today's news in Indonesia--and personally looked at ancient drawings on site as he studied examples of early art for his book. His book shows hand stencil blowpaint drawings and depictions of prey animals much like those in the articles in the news today. He devotes pages of thoughtful discussion to what early human drawings show and what drawing problems early artists encountered. He even mentions interesting evidence like figuring out how old the painters were by how high up on cave walls the paintings are found--it's clear that little kids in olden days practiced by making crude drawings, and became better at drawing as they grew up and could reach higher. [1] "World's oldest art found in Indonesian cave" http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-oldest-art-found-in-indonesian-cave-1.16100 http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-oldest-art-found-in-indon... [2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Nature-Paleolithic-Dale-Guthrie/dp/0226311260 http://www.amazon.com/The-Nature-Paleolithic-Dale-Guthrie/dp...