Hand stencils – produced by throwing or blowing pigment at hands placed against a wall – are among the most iconic forms of prehistoric rock art. Found in caves across Europe and Asia, these ...

Archaeologists found hand stencils made by blowing liquid ochre over hands placed on cave rocks. The earliest hand stencils are more than 50,000 years old.

The hand "stencils" and animal images that adorn the walls have minimum ages ranging from 35,400 to 39,900 years old. This falls within the range of dates assigned to the oldest cave art in Europe.

Using uranium dating, Pike’s team previously put hand stencils and geometric paintings in Spain’s El Castillo cave as the oldest on record: a maximum of 40,800 years old.

The oldest Sulawesi hand stencil dates to at least 39,900 years old, making it the oldest in the world. One Sulawesi babirusa is least 35,400 years old, putting it in the running for the oldest ...

Sometimes there are moments when an engineer has to use whatever materials they have to hand in order to complete the job on time. Such a situation arose at the RevSpace hacker space in Den Haag, N… ...

Panel 3 in Maltravieso Cave showing 3 hand stencils (centre right, centre top and top left). One has been dated to at least 66,000 years ago and must have been made by a Neanderthal (colour enhanced).

By dating popcorn-shaped mineral formations on the walls and ceilings of Indonesian caves, researchers reveal that a series of hand stencils and pig paintings are some of the oldest cave art in ...

The hand stencils are believed to be the work of the Big River people, or teen toomele menennye, and were made while they were journeying to Kutalayna, a meeting place down in the Derwent Valley ...

The island of Sulawesi in Indonesia is home to cave art dating back more than 45,000 years. The ancient cave paintings include depictions of animals, mixed human and animal figures, hand stencils ...

This stencil of a graceful, outstretched hand was discovered in a cave on an Indonesian island. And now we know that it’s more than 39,900 years old. That makes it the oldest painting in the ...