00:04When you were a kid, likely one of the first pieces of art you ever produced were finger paintings.
00:09But now new evidence discovered by researchers from Guangzhou University reveals
00:13mankind's first art may have been quite similar.
00:15The team found these prints made by children high in the mountains of the Tibetan plateau,
00:20and they believed they could be the earliest examples of parietal art,
00:23or forms of paintings, drawings, or engravings on rock surfaces ever discovered.
00:28So how old are they?
00:28The researchers believe they are from between 169,000 and 226,000 B.C.,
00:35or in the middle of the Ice Age.
00:36The imprints were made in limestone, which is soft when it's first produced,
00:40which would have allowed children to place their hands into the malleable stone before it hardened,
00:44making their eternal impressions.
00:46The children who made these particular impressions are thought to have been 7 and 12 years old,
00:50with the researchers adding that while the hands are clearly from a human species,
00:54they say there's no way to tell if they are from Homo sapiens or some other extinct species.
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