Justin Mott A headlamp illuminates ancient cave-art hand stencils inside Leang Sakapao. Justin Mott Aubert points out a picture of mating pigs in Leang Sakapao. Justin Mott Stencils, like these in ...

Its walls exhibit three distinctive styles of cave art linked to a hunter-gatherer ... Today, the Cave of the Hands, an official UNESCO World Heritage Site stands as one of the most significant ...

To make handprints, they would have had to place their hands on the cave wall then put the paint over them. The famous artist Pablo Picasso was so impressed by cave art that he is thought to have ...

The Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, contains an exceptional assemblage of cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago. It takes its name (Cave of the Hands) from the stencilled outlines of ...

One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck to the hunters. The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and ...