Cagayan Cave Art is 3,500 years old

A drawing resembling a human-like figure on a cave wall in Peñablanca town in Cagayan province is the first to be directly dated rock art in Southeast Asia, according to a research paper recently published in the journal Radiocarbon.

Dr. Andrea Jalandoni, lead author of the paper entitled "First Directly Dated Rock Art in Southeast Asia and The Archaeological Implications," said samples of pigment from the cave drawing have been dated to be around 3,500 years old using the radiocarbon dating method.