The oldest known hand stencil art previous to this is located in the Leang Timpuseng Cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. U-series dating of mineral deposits overlying the stencil there ...

A red hand stencil. A series of lines that look like a ladder. A collection of red dots. These images, painted in ocher on cave walls in Spain, are the oldest-known examples of cave art ever found.

The hand "stencils" and animal images that adorn the walls have minimum ages ranging from 35,400 to 39,900 years old. This falls within the range of dates assigned to the oldest cave art in Europe.

The hand stencil is at least 39,900 years old (see picture above, top right), making it the oldest example of this common ancient art form ever found (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature13422).

The result was a perfect hand stencil that scientists have now identified as the oldest rock art in the world. The hand stencil dates to at least 39,900 years ago, ...

One hand stencil dates to at least 39,900 years ago, making it the oldest example of hand stenciling in the world. Some of the animal artwork sets records as well: ...

Some of the world's earliest cave art, including the oldest-known hand stencil drawing, is degenerating at an "alarming rate" due to climate change, according to a new study.

Here’s a babirusa with a hand stencil: “It is often assumed that Europe was the center of the earliest explosion in human creativity, especially cave art,” Aubert says in a news release, ...

One of the Indonesian hand prints, pegged as at least 39,900 years old, is now the oldest hand stencil known to science, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.

DIY fans have been using stencils to spruce up their existing tiles which has resulted in some pretty impressive – and cheap – transformations. But replicating an elaborate stencil desi… ...