In the cave of Liang Tebo, on the Indonesian island of Borneo, archaeologists from Griffith University (Australia) delicately unearth a tomb at least 31,000 years old.
It's the very start of 2020, and researchers are returning to this rich area of caves adorned with what they two years earlier estimated to be the oldest known figurative cave paintings, dating back at least 40,000 years and eerily similar to those of Lascaux, 20,000 years younger.
In the tomb, they explain today in
Nature
,
the remains of a young individual in his twenties.
He was buried lying on his back, legs bent, hands placed at pelvis level, stones were carefully placed in his grave and a ball of red ocher near or in his mouth.
His skeleton is almost complete (75% of the bones have been found and all the teeth are intact).
But the left foot is missing, as well as part of the tibia and fibula: the individual buried there benefited…
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