🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Tsagaan Salaa Central Panel
Upper Palaeolithic to Early Bronze · Palaeolithic Kalgutinsky, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Okunev
Mid-valley of Tsagaan Salaa with Late Pleistocene bulls under Bronze elk on same boulders.
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🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Early Bronze · Palaeolithic Kalgutinsky, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Okunev
Mid-valley of Tsagaan Salaa with Late Pleistocene bulls under Bronze elk on same boulders.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Rock art
Late Pleistocene (43.9 ka) · Early modern humans of Wallacea (pre-Austronesian)
Sulawesi 43.9 ka therianthrope pig hunt — oldest figurative art globally.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Pleistocene Son Vi / Hoabinhian c.10,000–6000 BCE · Son Vi → Hoabinhian (central Highland)
Central Highlands Son Vi (11,600 BP) — 11,500 m2 chopper settlement at Lung Leng, Kon Tum (Se San dam).
🇦🇺 Australia · Submerged site
Pleistocene exposure maximally 18k BCE – flooded 12k–8k BCE · Aboriginal Australian / Papuan first peoples 65k BCE settlement
Australia–NG 2M km² Sahul continent with 600 km paleo-Lake Carpentaria — now Torres Strait 12 m.
🇦🇺 Australia · Archaeological wonder
Willandra 50,000–10,000 BCE occupation (Mungo Man 40,000 BP OSL roughly 1999/2003) · Paakantyi / Ngyiampaa / Mutthi Mutthi ancestors; Paakantyi contemporary traditional owners
Dry lake lunette crescent 30 km "Walls of China" with 40,000-year occupation revealing Mungo Man (1969, oldest cremation ~40,000 BP with ochred burial) and Mungo Lady (1968 cremation recalcined).