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It's nighttime as well as surprisingly warm inward a cave inward western Kingdom of Spain that hides our most intimate connectedness to the prehistoric by – mitt silhouettes painted tens of thousands of years ago.
Archaeologist Hipolito Collado as well as his squad had non entered the Maltravieso Cave inward the urban centre of Caceres for closed to a twelvemonth to avoid damaging the 57 faded hands that adorn the walls, precious remnants of a far-flung slice of history nosotros know lilliputian about.
Why did our ancestors or distant relatives pigment hands inward caves? Was it but to brand their mark, or business office of a ritual to commune alongside spirits?
Do they say us anything close the purpose of women during the Paleolithic era that ended some 10,000 years ago? And why are some fingers missing?
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