Hand Stencils, Prehistoric Rock Art: Oldest Painted Handprints
In total, the cave contains 12 red ochre hand prints, 9 hand stencils and some 450 palm prints mostly on the Panel of Hand Stencils in the Gallery of Hands. In the Panel of the Red Dots, a cave painting discovered close to the cave entrance, there is a cluster of large dots, roughly in the shape of a mammoth. The dots were made by dipping the palm of the right hand into red paint and then ...