An analysis of tiny, 8,000-year-old hand decorations in a Saharan rock shelter shows that they’re decidedly not human
of the Free University of Brussels describes how she was"shocked" by the shape of the unusually small hand outlines when she saw them at her first visit to Wadi Sura II in 2006."They were much smaller than human baby hands, and the fingers were too long," she explains.
For that, the anthropologist recruited a team that also included medical researchers to collect the infant data from the neonatal unit of a French hospital."If I went to a hospital and just said, 'I'm studying rock art. Are there babies available?' they'd think I'm crazy and call security on me," she laughs.revealed that there's an extremely low probability that the"baby" hands in the Cave of the Beasts are actually human.
So if the Wadi Sura II prints weren't human, what were they? The positioning of the tiny hands and their fingers varies from outline to outline, which led the research team to conclude they were flexible and articulated and ruled out the possibility of a stencil fashioned from a static material like wood or clay.
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