Stone Age Picasso: Griffith research among best scientific discoveries of 2020

Friday December 18, 2020

Research that confirms Asia rather than Europe as the place where modern humans first created figurative artwork has won a group of Griffith University academics inclusion in the prestigious Science magazine’s 10 best scientific breakthroughs of the year.

The painting portrays a group of part-human, part-animal figures hunting large mammals with spears or ropes. Photo: Griffith University

The team of archaeologists won a coveted place in the magazine’s top-10 scientific breakthroughs of the year for their work on the discovery of the world’s oldest known rock…

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