A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression. Researchers have determined that hand stencils in Maltravieso Cave are more than 66,000 years old, ...

Perhaps, he suggests, the stencils with missing fingers indicate that this practice too has ancient origins. Paul Taçon, an expert in rock art at Griffith University, notes that the hand stencils ...

Hand stencils – produced by throwing or blowing pigment at hands placed against a wall – are among the most iconic forms of ...