These Ancient Mysterious ‘Baby Hand Prints’ in Egyptian ‘Cave of Beasts’ Does Not Belong To Humans…… So Who Do They Belong To?

March 6th, 2016

Awake Goy

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In the Egyptian portion of the Libyan Desert, there’s a cave called “The Cave of Beasts” that contains over 5,000 cave paintings.

Also known as Wadi Sura II, the cave was only discovered in 2002 by amateur explorers.

Wadi Sura II is considered one of the greatest rock art sites of the Sahara, although it lacks the popular fame of nearby Wadi Sura I, the “Cave of the Swimmers,” which was discovered by Hungarian count Láslo Almásy in 1933 and popularized in ”The English Patient.”

Among the depictions of animals and dancing humans, there’s a curious portion of wall covered in hundreds of hand prints. The cave art was created at least 7,000 years ago, using the technique of placing a hand on the wall and then blowing paint on top, like a stone-age spray can and stencil.

Within the mishmash of hands, there are 13 smaller hand prints, often placed in the palm of a larger print. Until now, archaeologists assumed the tiny prints belong to a baby, to express some kind of intimacy. However, some new research by archaeologists from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University has suggested these are actually the hand prints of……

Researchers first believed that the anomalous ‘prints’ engraved in the stone belonged to the hands and feet of baby children, but a new researcher has shown otherwise, suggesting that the traces left in the cave did not belong to humans but…reptiles

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The researchers of the study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, came to this idea by looking at the size of the hand prints and comparing them to the size and dimensions of newborn baby hands.

A new theory suggests ancient hunters could have created the handprints by holding up lizards. However why ancient hunters would have done this remains a mystery.

The new theory is somewhat conflicting and many do not agree, suggesting the truth behind them is far more mysterious than we are willing to accept.

So if the prints aren’t human, what are they? The positioning of the tiny hands and their fingers varies from outline to outline, which led the research team to conclude they were flexible and articulated and ruled out the possibility of a stencil fashioned from a static material like wood or clay.

Anthropologist Emmanuelle Honoré of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research initially suspected monkey paws, but when those proportions were also off, colleagues at the Museum of Natural History in Paris suggested she take a look at reptiles.

The team found that the proportions and the distance between each of the fingers were consistent with that of a reptile. With their knowledge of which animals lived in the Libyan desert at the time and other examples of cave art animal drawings, the archaeologists currently believe it was most likely to be a desert monitor lizard (Varanus griseus).

Monitor lizards still live in the region today and are considered protective creatures by nomadic tribes in the area.

At the moment, they’re also analyzing the forefeet of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) as a potential suspect. This could open up even more questions, as the crocodile would have to have been transported across the desert to the cave.

The animal feet decorations in Wadi Sura II appear not only stenciled inside the outlines of human hands but also in friezes, a patterning also seen with human hands. All were stenciled around the same time with the same pigment. It’s impossible to say, however, whether the foot of a live creature was pressed against the wall of the rock shelter for stenciling or whether the artist(s) opted for the convenience and safety of a freshly severed limb.

The National Geographic writes: Honoré is reluctant to speculate on why such a civilization would imprint the legs of animals on their cave walls.

‘It’s very challenging for us as researchers to interpret these paintings since we have a culture that’s totally different [from the one that created it],’ she said.

References:

iflscience.com

nationalgeographic.com

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