Contribution to Rock Art Interpretation with New Decipherments of Hand Prints

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The discovery during the 1990’s of an unexpected large rock art field in East Kalimantan, East Borneo, containing more than 2000 negative hand prints, has led to a different approach of the possible function(s) of this materialization of specific procedures. It has permitted researchers to look for practical interpretations of decipherment of sex gender on these panels. A preliminary computer program had been elaborated yielding interesting results, followed recently by a more precise program deciphering men’s and women’s presence in numerous caves or shelters of the world. We present here the results, including from South America, of hundreds of significant decipherments completing the previous results and publications.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 41579.0