Maltravieso Cave houses more than 60 red hand stencils, but their precise ages have remained a mystery. Determining the age of cave art is usually challenging because mineral-based pigments cannot ...

Justin Mott A headlamp illuminates ancient cave-art hand stencils inside Leang Sakapao. Justin Mott Aubert points out a picture of mating pigs in Leang Sakapao. Justin Mott Stencils, like these in ...

Painting from three cave sites, a red linear motif in Cave of La Pasiega, a hand stencil in Maltravieso Cave, and red-painted speleothems in Ardales Cave, was found to be more than 64,000 years old.