Posted on 06/02/2006 10:51:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An ancient cave discovered in December in western France contains a rare find: a 27,000-year-old human skeleton in a painted room and a drawing of a human face, experts announced Friday after months of study... A single painted face found in the cave also could be among the oldest graphic representations of a human face, said Jean-Yves Baratin, archaeology curator for the Poitou-Charentes region... The other instance in which a body was found in a decorated cave is in the hamlet of Cussac, a grotto that experts have said was as important for engravings as paintings are for the famed Lascaux caves. The Vilhonneur cave features a series of paintings, including one in which a human hand is imprinted on a wall by adding colour around it.
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LOL! nice. and the one about the CDs was good too!
If you actually look at the photo, it is obvious that the hand was placed on the rock and then spattered with the paint leaving a clean impression of the hand.
This same technique is used in our own southwest by more recent artists.
Spechunking?
Shades of the "We'ans' article from "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown"
In the American southwest you have hand prints among the other petroglyphs. Oddly, quite a few of them have six fingers.
http://williamcalvin.com/bk6/bk6ch5.htm
I can't find any good pictures on the web.
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