[HN Gopher] Oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia
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       Oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia
        
       Author : samizdis
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-01-13 20:11 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (phys.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
        
       | trianglem wrote:
       | Do we have something intrinsic in us that causes us to make those
       | hand prints? What is going on? Why is it the same print all over
       | the world?
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       | And always done the same way I presume. Someone holds some red
       | ochre+water mixture in their mouth and then blows it over their
       | hand against the wall. It's incredible that people were doing
       | that all over the world for thousands of years!
        
         | briefcomment wrote:
         | Maybe it's remnants of some sort of universal signage system
         | that tells what animals are in the area, and what tools you
         | need to hunt them.
        
         | nix23 wrote:
         | Yes, a hand is different from every animal, and it's your
         | personal hand. We still do the same with baby-feets and paint.
         | And if you look at baby's what they do in the sand it's always
         | press the hand in it and look at the form, it's like a signage.
        
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