About 40,000 years ago, lots of new types of art – like cave paintings and carvings – seemed to appear in France and Spain at around the same time.
Because of this, many archaeologists thought that prehistoric humans in a small part of Europe had suddenly “switched on” their ability to be creative, during the Ice Age.
But now, discoveries of ancient art in other parts of the world suggest that this may not be the case.
The cave painting in Sulawesi is more than 25,000 years older than the art from Ice Age Europe.
Researchers think this shows that ancient humans were being creative much earlier than many archaeologists thought – and in different parts of the world, too.
