Prehistoric cave artists were women


	Prehistoric cave artists were women

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7-5-2009 5:20 PM

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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/f88bcc4e-2cca-4f69-b0b7-65c6f2a70ab0/BAA8ADAA-E07C-4844-8C40-78B347ECE664/" 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://www.sott.net/articles/show/188001-Study-finds-that-prehistoric-cave-artists-were-women" href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/188001-Study-finds-that-prehistoric-cave-artists-were-women" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sott.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/188001-Study-finds-that-prehistoric-cave-artists-were-women"><DIV>Archeologists say the hand stencils created by ancient Europeans were mostly artworks imprinted by female members of prehistoric societies.
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Measuring and analyzing the hand stencils surrounding the famous 'Spotted Horses' mural in France's 25,000-year-old Pech Merle cave, Pennsylvania State University archaeologists found that most of them belonged to females.
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"Even a superficial examination of published photos suggested to me that there were lots of female hands there,"<EM> National Geographic</EM> quoted archaeologist Dean Snow as saying.
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The 28,000-year-old hand stencils of Spain's El Castillo cave and the late Paleolithic ones in France's Gargas cave also yielded the same result.
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						"We don't know what the roles of artists were in Upper Paleolithic society generally," said Snow. "But it's a step forward to be able to say that a strong majority of them were women."
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