PICTURES: Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female


	PICTURES: Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cf011d07-f5b0-44eb-b438-a9925d8da4a5/7DAFCBF9-D110-4563-BB7F-F536F7D5EFF5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/cave-handprints-actually-women-missions-pictures/index.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/cave-handprints-actually-women-missions-pictures/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/cave-handprints-actually-women-missions-pictures/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.nationalgeographic.com/img/61C1C076-1CE3-41B1-A461-617D14D5C028" alt="PICTURES: Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/cave-handprints-actually-women-missions-pictures/index.html"><STRONG>June 16, 2009--</STRONG>Inside <A 
href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_france.html">France</A>'s 
25,000-year-old <A 
href="http://www.quercy.net/pechmerle/english/introduction.html">Pech Merle 
cave</A>, hand stencils surround the famed "Spotted Horses" mural. <BR><BR>For 
about as long as humans have created works of art, they've also left behind 
handprints. People began stenciling, painting, or chipping imprints of their 
hands onto rock walls at least 30,000 years ago. <BR><BR>Until recently, most 
scientists assumed these prehistoric handprints were male. But "even a 
superficial examination of published photos suggested to me that there were lots 
of female hands there," <A 
href="http://www.anthro.psu.edu/faculty_staff/snow.shtml">Pennsylvania State 
University archaeologist Dean Snow</A> said of European cave art. <BR><BR>By 
measuring and analyzing the Pech Merle hand stencils, Snow found that many were 
indeed female--including those pictured here. (Also see: <A 
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/cave-art-handprints-missions-pictures/">pictures 
of hand stencils through time</A>.) </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7DAFCBF9-D110-4563-BB7F-F536F7D5EFF5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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