Early humans reach Borneo, leaving some of the world’s oldest cave art
Borneo’s first inhabitants arrived around 40,000 years ago, walking across land bridges exposed by Ice Age seas. Deep in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, one of them painted a wild bovid on the wall — an image later dated to at least 40,000 B.C.E. It’s a quiet reminder that figurative art emerged in many places at once, wherever human minds were ready to wonder.