The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

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The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

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Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.