The hand stencil dates to at least 39,900 years ago, ... France's Chauvet cave is adorned with animals dated to roughly 35,000 years ago, ...

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Cave de Chauvet Pont d’Arc is a phenomenal example of early man’s capabilities. Our analytical bent and technical prowess dictate that we study it rather than add our hand to it.

They're something you might expect from club-wielding cavemen communicating in grunts and wild hand gestures. In truth, some cave drawings have been discovered that closely resemble the images ...

The remarkable Chauvet Cave paintings show 13 different species in great detail, as well as other more abstract work including series of dots and outlines of human hands.

Like all other known cave art in Europe, they depict animals and – in the case of Chauvet – human hands. If the volcano thesis is accepted, historians may have to revise their theories about ...

If these new dates hold up, then the stencils are just a bit older than the hand outlines at Chauvet Cave in southern France, which was also covered with rhinos, horses, lions, and women with ...