{"id":695,"date":"2021-05-18T08:08:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T00:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=695"},"modified":"2021-05-17T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T03:11:11","slug":"the-worlds-oldest-cave-art-is-being-destroyed-by-climate-crisis-a-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/the-worlds-oldest-cave-art-is-being-destroyed-by-climate-crisis-a-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Oldest Cave Art Is Being Destroyed By Climate Crisis, A New Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the world\u2019s oldest\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_cave-art\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"cave-art\">cave art<\/a>\u00a0is being lost due to the detrimental effects of climate change, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new study<\/a>\u00a0on the effects of climate change on Sulawesi\u2019s Pleistocene rock art conducted by Jill Huntley and others from the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>at Griffith University in Australia. In southern Sulawesi, Indonesia, more than 300 cave sites are at risk of deterioration\u2014this notably includes some of the earliest cave art ever created, even older than some better-known sites in Europe such as Lascaux and Chauvet.<\/p>\n<p>The art was created using red and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\/\">mulberry pigments<\/a>, and includes hand stencils, animal depictions, and images of human-animal hybrids. The Sulawesi caves are home to the oldest animal depiction\u2014a warty pig that is at least 45,500 years old\u2014as well as the oldest hand stencil in the world, made more than 39,900 years ago. One cave even contains what researchers describe as \u201cpossibly the earliest known narrative scene in prehistoric art\u201d depicting a hunting scene.<\/p>\n<p>Salt, heat, and extreme weather events are contributing to the degradation of these important sites, researchers explained. The constant cycling between dry conditions and monsoon rainfall is causing a buildup of salts on the cave surfaces, leading to exfoliation. \u201cWhen the solution evaporates, crystals form, expand, and contract as the environment heats and cools, causing repetitive strain.\u201d This salt crystallization, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\/\">haloclasty<\/a>, damages the limestone surfaces inside the caves, thereby creating cracks in the rock\u2019s surfaces and causing the artwork to flake from it.<\/p>\n<p>The area in which Sulawesi is located (the Australasian monsoon region) is the most atmospherically dynamic on earth\u2014making it particularly susceptible to anthropogenic climate change\u2014and places it at high risk of losing an invaluable part of early human heritage. Researchers found that the rate of exfoliation is increasing. Local communities that have watched over the rock art sites for generations say the destruction has grown rapidly, with more loss in recent decades than at \u201cany other time in living memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New rock art sites are found in Sulawesi every year, and some of the caves have yet to be explored. As the researchers explain, our climate crisis is \u201chastening the deterioration of the unique, irreplaceable record of early human artistic culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the world\u2019s oldest\u00a0cave art\u00a0is being lost due to the detrimental effects of climate change, according to a\u00a0new study\u00a0on the effects of climate change on Sulawesi\u2019s Pleistocene rock art conducted by Jill Huntley and others from the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit\u00a0at Griffith University in Australia. 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