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The giraffe carvings were first recorded by French archaeologist Christian Dupuy in 1987, [3] and documented by David Coulson [4] in 1997 while on a photographic expedition to the site. Due to degradation of the engravings resulting from human activity, a mold was made of the engravings for display.
Hand images are found in similar forms in Europe, Eastern Asia, Australia, and South America. [32] One site in Baja California features handprints as a prominent motif in its rock art. Archaeological study of this site revealed that, based on the size of the handprints, they most likely belonged to the women of the community.
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This is a list of handprint ceremonies for the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood Los Angeles, California (originally "Grauman's Chinese Theatre"). Footprints and signatures are also included, and in some cases imprints of other objects: Sonja Henie imprinted her ice skates. [1]
The walls of seven of the chambers at Pech Merle have recent-looking, lifelike images of mammoths, [4] spotted [5] and single-coloured equids, bovids, reindeer, human stenciled handprints, [6] and some human figures, as well. Footprints of children, preserved in what was once clay, have been found more than 800 m (2,600 ft) underground.
The drawings include those of giraffe and hippopotamus. [1] They are estimated to have been created as early as 10,000 years ago with the beginning of the African Humid Period , when the Sahara was significantly greener and wetter than it is today.
Art of the European Upper Paleolithic includes rock and cave painting, jewelry, [12] [13] drawing, carving, engraving and sculpture in clay, bone, antler, [14] stone [15] and ivory, such as the Venus figurines, and musical instruments such as flutes.
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, [1] as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. [2]