4,000-Year-Old Rock Painting in Indonesia Offers Clues to Austronesian Migration

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Asia · Indonesia · Aug 17, 2026
Primary source: The Conversation

A team from ANU, UCL and Indonesia's national research agency found a 4,000-year-old sunburst rock painting at the Huknaur overhang on Wetar Island, evidence of a shared Austronesian symbolic tradition that may have accompanied the peopling of the Pacific.

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