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women cave artists

Judging by the size of painted handprints in European caves, some of the prehistoric artists might have been women:
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Espirit says,
. . . More inclined to see women as decorating and men as telling hunting tales.

That what most of the cave paintings are. Hunting tales. Pictorial language. Since men did most of the hunting, it's also possible that the paintings were done by young hunters. If we compare the hands of a 10-year-old boy, and a small woman.
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