Impressions of hands and feet that appear to have been made by 2 children about 200,000 years ago may be the earliest work of human art, according to an international team of geologists and archaeologists.
The limestone boulder at Quesang is now hard, but the researchers say it would have formed a soft layer deposited from the waters of the hot spring when the prints were made.The motif of the human hand links the prints at Quesang with later cave paintings.
The fact that the handprints appear to have been made by children is also a feature of some early prehistoric art. “I find it difficult to think that there is an ‘intentionality’ in this design,” he said in an email. “And I don’t think there are scientific criteria to prove it — it is a question of faith, and of wanting to see things in one way or another.”
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