Cueva de las Manos probably made by submerging their hunting bolas in ink, and then throwing them up. The binder is unknown but the mineral pigments include iron oxides, producing reds and purples; kaolin, producing white; natrojarosite, producing yellow; and manganese oxide, which makes black. Carlos J. Gradin has studied the cave. Cueva de las Manos has been listed as a World Heritage Site since 1999. Cueva de las Manos Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of Hands) is a cave or a series of caves located in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, south of the town of Perito Moreno. It is
Cave of Altamira Cave of Altamira The Cave of Altamira (; ) is a cave located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, that is renowned for its numerous parietal cave paintings featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands, created during the Upper Paleolithic. The earliest paintings in the cave were executed around 36,000 years ago. It was discovered by Modesto Cubillas in 1868. Aside from the striking quality of its polychromatic art, Altamira's fame stems from the fact that its paintings were the first European cave paintings for which a prehistoric origin