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Cave Artists Were Females, New Research Reveals!

by Tanya on June 30, 2009 at 4:41 PM General Health News

It has been suggested by a recent analysis of hand stencils inside the 25,000-year-old Pech Merle cave that the majority of prehistoric European cave artists were female. This, because the handprints seem to belong to females.

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For about as long as humans have created works of art, they've also left behind handprints.

People began stenciling, painting, or chipping imprints of their hands onto rock walls at least 30,000 years ago.

Until recently, most scientists assumed these prehistoric handprints were male.

"Our hands are one of the features that make humans unique, something that links us all," said Pennsylvania State University archaeologist Dean Snow.

But "even a superficial examination of published photos suggested to me that there were lots of female hands there," Pennsylvania State University archaeologist Dean Snow told National Geographic News, referring to European cave art. y measuring and analyzing the Pech Merle hand stencils, Snow found that many were indeed female.

With support from the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration, he analyzed hand stencils at caves in Spain and France and found most of them were female.

"Before, most scientists had incorrectly assumed that it was a guy thing," Snow said.

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