{"id":24764,"date":"2024-07-05T09:35:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T04:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24764"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:31:46","slug":"leang-karampuang-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/leang-karampuang-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Leang Karampuang Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Leang Karampuang Cave:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>limestone cave<\/strong> located on the Indonesian <strong>island of Sulawesi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Key findings<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A scene of <strong>humans interacting<\/strong> with a pig painted on a cave wall is found in the cave.<\/li>\n<li>The scene, dominated by a representation of a pig that is standing upright along with <strong>three smaller human-like figures<\/strong>, is painted in a single shade of dark <strong>red pigment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>One figure seems to be holding an object near the pig\u2019s throat. Another is directly above the pig\u2019s head in an upside-down position with legs splayed out.<\/li>\n<li>The third figure is <strong>larger and grander in appearance<\/strong> than the others; it is holding an unidentified object and is possibly <strong>wearing an elaborate headdress.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This painting predates the cave paintings of Europe, which is at <strong>El Castillo<\/strong> in Spain, dating to about <strong>40,800 years ago.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The researchers interpreted the painting as a <strong>narrative scene<\/strong>, which they said would make it the oldest-known evidence <strong>of storytelling in art.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The earliest Sulawesi rock art is not &#8216;simple, it is quite advanced and shows the mental capacity of people at the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a stalagmite?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an upward-growing mound of mineral deposits that have precipitated from water dripping onto the floor of a cave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/worlds-oldest-cave-painting-in-indonesia-shows-a-pig-and-people\/article68366794.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World&#8217;s oldest cave painting in Indonesia shows a pig and people<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leang Karampuang Cave  is a limestone cave located on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}