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Humans seem to have an adaptive predisposition for inventing, telling and consuming stories¹. Prehistoric cave art provides the most direct insight that we have into the earliest storytelling^2,3,4,5, in the form of narrative compositions or 鈥榮cenes鈥?sup>2,5 that feature clear figurative depictions of sets of figures in spatial proximity to each other, and from which one can infer actions taking place among the figures⁵. The Upper Palaeolithic cave art of Europe hosts the oldest previously known images of humans and animals interacting in recognizable scenes^2,5, and of therianthropes^6,7鈥攁bstract beings that combine qualities of both people and animals, and which arguably communicated narrative fiction of some kind (folklore, religious myths, spiritual beliefs and so on). In this record of creative expression (spanning from about 40聽thousand years ago (ka) until the beginning of the Holocene epoch at around 10聽ka), scenes in cave art are generally rare and chronologically late (dating to about 21鈥?4聽ka)⁷, and clear representations of therianthropes are uncommon⁶鈥攖he oldest such image is a carved figurine from Germany of a human with a feline head (dated to about 40鈥?9聽ka)⁸. Here we describe an elaborate rock art panel from the limestone cave of Leang Bulu鈥?Sipong聽4 (Sulawesi, Indonesia) that portrays several figures that appear to represent therianthropes hunting wild pigs and dwarf bovids; this painting has been dated to at least 43.9聽ka on the basis of uranium-series analysis of overlying speleothems. This hunting scene is鈥攖o our knowledge鈥攃urrently the oldest pictorial record of storytelling and the earliest figurative artwork in the world.