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Tibetan fingerprint art

From DD'eDeN aka note/nickname/alas_my_l@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 21 05:36:51 2021

Oldest fingerpainting? 200ka kids handprints Tibet. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/scientists-discovered-that-hand-prints-made-by-children-are-earliest-prehistoric-art-2009974/amp-page

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From I Envy JTEM@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 21 18:38:02 2021

DD'eDeN aka note/nickname/alas_my_loves wrote:

Oldest fingerpainting? 200ka kids handprints Tibet. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/scientists-discovered-that-hand-prints-made-by-children-are-earliest-prehistoric-art-2009974/amp-page

I wonder if this stuff is a preservation bias. That, we find what was
in caves or protected by ledges because the sun & weather couldn't
destroy it.

I know, neither are the case here...

For all we know, they were leaving this stuff everywhere, going back
a million years.

Of course the real question is how can we test these things.

Speculation is fun but it's all about imagination not science, unless
and until we can put them to the test.

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