Cave of the Hands - Cueva de las Manos - Negative
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Cave of the Hands - Cueva de las Manos - Negative
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Oil Painting
Description
Cave of the Hands, Patagonia, Argentina. Negative. Digital oil painting.
Las Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of Hands) hides in an isolated spot of the Argentine Patagonia, accessible via dirt roads that lead you to some of the earliest known forms of human art, dating back roughly 10,000 years.
This complex of caves and shelters is famous for (and gets its name from) the stenciled paintings of hands. The art in the cave is 9,000 to 13,000 years old. The age of the paintings was calculated from the remains of bone-made pipes used for spraying the paint on the wall of the cave to create silhouettes of hands.
The Cave of the Hands entered the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999. The international scientific community considers the cave one of the most important sites of the earliest hunter-gatherer groups in South America.
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Weston Westmoreland.
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December 17th, 2018
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