A Single Global Human Culture 45,000 years ago?

 

A reverse hand-print from a cave in France.

The world's oldest cave painting has been found in Sulawesi Indonesia. Dating such art is very tricky, but they have determined that it was painted around 45,000 years ago, making it several thousand years earlier than similar art in Europe. And when I say similar art, I mean very similar. Click on the link above and look at the reverse hand-prints. They look like they could have been made by the same artist using the same kind of paint as that shown from the French cave painting above. 

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that some 40 odd thousand years ago there was a common human culture spread out across most of the old world which was not covered by ice sheets

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