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Cave art seems always to have been thought of, for no especially good reason, as the work of men. Perhaps it is because much of the art lies in deep, dark caverns, or because many of the paintings and engravings are of large food animals such as mammoth and bison, which men might be supposed to have hunted.

Professor Dean Snow, of Pennsylvania State University, believes that many of these hand prints are those of women.

"The very long ring finger on one example is a dead giveaway for male hands. The other has a long index finger and a short little finger - thus very feminine" - Professor Dean Snow

At Pech-Merle, pigment-outlined hands encircle the famous 'spotted horses', the spots on which were created by the same blowing technique. By measuring and analysing the Pech-Merle hand stencils, Snow found that many were, indeed, female in proportion, raising the possibility, to say the least, that the horses were also created by women.

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International symposium on rock paintings opens in Helan Mountains
Here's one type of art that you might see in a museum, but it's a bit tricky to transport. Rock painting has been a method of artful expression in China since ancestors painted and carved pictures on rocks to record different aspects of ancient human society. And China's rock paintings are among the most widespread and richest in the world, with some being discovered as far back as 1500 years.

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16,000 year-old mother goddess figurine unearthed
Archaeologists unearthed 16,000 year-old mother goddess figurine during excavations in Direkli Cave in the southern province of Kahramanmara.

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As long as human beings have been able to look up, they've been fascinated by the stars.

"When primitive man first looked up into the sky, was fascinated by what he saw and asked himself what it was all about, astronomy had already begun" - Daniel LeBlanc of Dieppe, president of the Beauséjour Astronomy Club.

Images of what they saw in the sky were displayed in markings and drawings on cave walls along with depictions of animals and battles.

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A great amount of the literature specialised on Archaeology, and specifically the one dealing with prehistoric communities, agrees that "...Altamira was the first step in the search of the artistic spirit of our ancestors".

Altamira is the Spanish region where, in 1878, paintings on cave walls were found. Those were drawings depicting "...bisons, cold weather animals that had disappeared from the Iberian geography thousand of years ago".

When that was published, an obstacle seemingly insurmountable raised against it: the Research Committee on Mankind History, seated in France, disapproved "...all theory which presented the primitive men less savage and more artistic than what was assumed up to then" . Such a theory buried the important finding for 19 years.

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The Venus figurine, described by archaeologist Nicholas Conard of Tuebingen University in the journal Nature, may be the oldest example of an attempt by humans to represent themselves artistically.
Radiocarbon dating of the piece, which was discovered last September in six pieces in southern Germany, indicates that it is at least 35,000 years old.

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A grotesque carving in mammoth ivory is arguably the world's oldest depiction of a human figure, scientists say.
The distorted sculpture, which portrays a woman with huge breasts, big buttocks and exaggerated genitals, is thought to be at least 35,000 years old.
The 6cm-tall figurine, reported in the journal Nature, is the latest find to come from Hohle Fels Cave in Germany.

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A 40,000-year-old figurine of a voluptuous woman carved from mammoth ivory and excavated from a cave in southwestern Germany is the oldest known example of three-dimensional or figurative representation of humans and sheds new light on the origins of art, researchers reported today.

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Sie ist winzig, hat Stummelbeine, einen breiten Hintern und völlig überdimensionierte Brüste. Trotzdem ist diese Frau eine Sensation: Die in einer Höhle in Tübingen gefundene geschnitzte Venus ist die älteste Menschenfigur der Welt.

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A 35,000-year-old ivory carving of a busty woman found in a German cave was unveiled Wednesday by archaeologists who believe it is the oldest known sculpture of the human form.
The carving found in six fragments in Germany's Hohle Fels cave depicts a woman with a swollen belly, wide-set thighs and large, protruding breasts.

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Scenographic representations of Angolan rock paintings are now contained in a book of the French archaeologist, Manuel Gutierrez.
Published on Thursday in Namibe city, the book entitled "Arte rupestre em Angola (rock paintings in Angola)", according the owner, represents figures of the Tchitunduhulo-Opeleva and Tchitunduhulo-Mulume stations, in Virei district, containing rock paintings, most of them with geometric and animal configurations.

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More than 10,000 cave paintings - dating back to more than 6,000 years - were discovered by Peruvian archaeologist Quirino Olivera in the Andean country's jungle department of Amazonas, daily El Comercio reported.
Hidden by the region's lush vegetation for centuries, the paintings were discovered in caves located near the village of Tambolic, in the district of Jamalca, province of Utcubamba.

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