On the other hand, the pig does seem to resemble other pigs closely enough.
I'm going off-topic a little here, but that's what sort of worries me. Not much, just a bit.
Don't want to start a conspiracy theory-like rumour, but I'm surprised that the pig is stylistically so similar (to me, anyway) to the Lascaux paintings.
Prof. Maxime Aubert and his team discovered the oldest then-known representational art in 2020, believed to be from 45.5 Kya.
It resembles some of the Lascaux paintings, with its disproportionately small, spindly limbs*.
The 45,500 year-old painting of a pig was accompanied by stencils of hands, just like at Lascaux.
@Giddierone has made us aware that Prof. Aubert has had the good fortune to discover even older representational art-
extraordinarily, also a pig, dated to 51.2 Kya. It's stylistically similar (at least re. relative proportions of limbs and improbably bulbous body) to his 2020 discovery- and arguably to the Lascaux pictures.
45,500 year-old pig at left, 51,200 year-old pig at right.
Small area of of Lascaux 2 art, ponies/ horses. Note limbs. It is generally accepted the Lascaux art is "only" 17,000 years old.
I'm not aware of any palaeoarchaeologists commenting on the two oldest pieces of representational art- approximately 5,700 years apart- both being pigs (even if pigs were an important prey item for humans for 1000's of years) and both having (I think) a similar style to some of the Lascaux animals.
It's as if there's a shared "prehistoric style" of art stretching from Indonesia to France over at least 34,000 years.
I won't pretend to have any expertise in these things, and I'm not
aware of any murmurings of doubt amongst those that have,
so I guess it's all above-board.
*Remembering these are wild animals thousands of years pre- the domestication and selective breeding of pigs (
including the Sulawesi warty pig).