Cueva de las Manos 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 famous for (and gets its name from) the paintings of hands. The art in the cave dates from 13,000 to 9,000 years ago. Several waves of people occupied the cave, and early artwork has been carbon-dated to ca. 9300 BP (about 7300 BC). The age of the paintings was calculated from the remains of bone-made pipes used for spraying the paint on
Cave of the Trois-Frères the artist's fingers. The pair are among the largest and finest surviving prehistoric sculptures. Cave of the Trois-Frères The Cave of the Trois-Frères is a cave in southwestern France famous for its cave paintings. It is located in Montesquieu-Avantès, in the Ariège "département". The cave is named for the three sons of Comte Bégouen who discovered it in 1914. (In means "three brothers".) The drawings of the cave were made famous in the publications of the Abbé Henri Breuil. The cave art appears to date to approximately 13,000 BC. One of the paintings, known as "The Sorcerer", is the "most