Rock art in Indonesia has mostly been reported from eastern parts of the archipelago and until ca. 1990 this was the only known area of rock art distribution. However, for the last three decades, investigation on many rock art complexes have revealed new evidence even from the western part of Sulawesi, which was previously considered to be the western boundary of rock art sites in Indonesia, as well as Kalimantan and Sumatra. Uranium-series dating obtained from East Kalimantan has revealed very early dates with the first appearing between 52,000 and 40,000 years ago. Such old dates came from rock art in the Maros caves of Sulawesi, with the oldest appearing 40,000 years ago. Unlike East Kalimantan, the newly discovered sites from West Sumatra Province in Sumatra provide a corpus of recent rock art. These sites reveal paintings that consist mainly of white pigment along with engraving; they …