The first artists may have been mostly women!

[Rosencrantz]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art/

Cool article on National Geographic. Someone did a study on handprints in cave paintings and theorized with the data that 75% were women.

Kinda reminds me of the anecdote about the bone with 28 notches:

When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?

— Sandi Toksvig.

(this quote probably refers to the Ishango Bone, which has been used to say women were the first mathematicians according to my websearches for this danged quote)

[kaoskat]

That's interesting! Though.....Hubby's hands have the ring and index fingers the same length too....

[BigHicks1977]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art/

Cool article on National Geographic. Someone did a study on handprints in cave paintings and theorized with the data that 75% were women.

Kinda reminds me of the anecdote about the bone with 28 notches:

When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?

— Sandi Toksvig.

(this quote probably refers to the Ishango Bone, which has been used to say women were the first mathematicians according to my websearches for this danged quote)

I love this story and I agree with you bro woman have made just as many condributions to to evolution of mankind if not more 

[Salli]

Very interesting! Thanks for posting

[melodys_angel]

Oh, cool!

I never did stop to wonder until now.

[happycootie]

Very cool; thanks for posting! I never thought about the gender cave artists before. 

[MikeysGrrrl]

That's awesome, I love stuff like this

[sherrike]

Very interesting read, thank you for sharing the article. I love your anecdote, too!

[Rosencrantz]

That's interesting! Though.....Hubby's hands have the ring and index fingers the same length too....

They covered that, apparently there was more sexual dimorphism in our ancestors than we have currently.

[achab1984]

That is pretty neat! I like to read things like this

[xeevee]

that's just cause girls are way better than boys, who all have germs anyways. So ner!