Archeologist Suggests Paleolithic Cave Art Was Done by Women

Pennsylvania State University archaeologist Dean Snow, National Geographic reported that he promised could be traced back to the Paleolithic cave art studies have shown that most of the women, rather than men generally considered passed.

Snow Dean has been studying for nearly a decade of "National Geographic" at the behest of the ancient fingerprints in the caves . At first, he said that the work geologist John Manning - he'd read and found that the average length of fingers of different genders . Men tend to have longer ring finger than index finger for example , while the opposite is true of women. Over time, his report , he had been looking grotto art photos, pay attention on the fingers of both hands on Manning seems to fit the description of female hands. His last voyage of discovery . He began looking for a new way , in a grotto art , and even developed an algorithm that provides a possibility of fingerprints belonging to a man or woman - he tested it on volunteers modern in Europe , and found that it is about 60 % accuracy rate . He noted that in the Paleolithic people Gender differences between finger length is more obvious , it is in modern humans have more overlap. Because of this , he believes that people who measure the cave art , his algorithm is more accurate.

Recalling the early examples of cave art hand template , which people so that they lay their hands against the wall , and then blew paint it ( through a straw, or directly from their mouth ) to create an outline . This art has been found in Australia, Africa , Borneo , Argentina and more famous caves in Spain and France . Snow said that so far , his research shows that approximately 75% ( 2432 ) , this handmade art may be done by women .

Until recently, most scientists agree that cave art was most likely done by men - depicting hunters seem to summarize life , a hunter - gatherer societies male half of the women and animals to be hunted . This idea has slowly changed because archaeologists have begun to take a closer look. For example , biologists Dale Guthrie , hand arts were studied, and concluded that they are most likely caused by adolescent boys .

Snow 's theory, if the women are doing most of the cave art, it is possible that they play a bigger and more important role than the hunter-gatherer societies always thought how it works .

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European Ice Age rock paintings, often called " cave art " , is well known all over the world , probably because of the high quality and the ancient images. So far, about 350 sites have been found from the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, the Urals . They , nearly half ( about 160 ) were found in France. They include some of the really big cave. When the Abbe Breuil published his great book " IV grotto art ," he pointed out that his so-called " Big Six ", one of Spain Altamira , Lascaux in France, the other five , Niaux LesTrois FRERES font Brad and Les Combarelles 's ( Breuil 1952 ) . No doubt he now will increase at least Chauvet (Clottes ( ed ) 2001 ), Cosquer (1996年Clottes COURTIN) Cussac (Aujoulat: etc. , 2001), Rouffignac (Plassard 1999) lists.

Portable Art is not less than the same period in the famous French . In the course of the nineteenth century , mainly found in some sites , such as hotel Le Mas d ' EGI children 's , Gourdan, Brassempouy, Laugerie. Other top sites (Isturitz La VACHE 's , Enlene, Lamarche ) , excavated in the twentieth century, carved or engraved with thousands of objects. Here mentioned Mobiliary art as the main purpose of this paper is to petroglyphs ( about mobiliary Art Clottes ( editor ) 1990 ) .

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