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Researchers have determined that hand stencils in Maltravieso Cave are more than 66,000 years old, ... Neanderthals were making hand stencil rock art more than 66,000 years ago, ...

Rock art may have emerged separately in these disparate locales. Given that simple hand stencils show up all over the world, he points out, that wouldn’t be too surprising.

Petroglyphs at Yilbilinji rock shelter, Australia (Courtesy Liam Brady) Reconstructed beeswax stencils (Courtesy Liam Brady). Ancient artists all over the world created images featuring negative ...

These prehistoric ‘baby hands’ are not what you think. An analysis of tiny, 8,000-year-old hand decorations in a Saharan rock shelter shows that they’re decidedly not human.

The roughly 8,000-year-old "hands" painted on a rock wall in the Sahara Desert aren't human at all, as researchers originally thought, but are actually stencils of the "hands" or forefeet, of the ...

We have no idea who painted a large red animal on the walls of a remote cave in Borneo at least 40,000 years ago, but their work is the oldest-known example of figurative rock art in the world ...

A painting on a cave’s ceiling may be one of Australia’s earliest examples of rock art, ... Mineral deposits partly covering hand stencils in an Indonesian cave date to nearly 40,000 years ...