Author Aurignacian cave visitors
Date of creation 34000 BCE
Chauvet Cave Palm-Print Panel (Grand Panneau des Points-Paumes)
Roughly 100 ochre palm-prints applied by hand in the Brunel Chamber of Chauvet cave, forming a large shape suggestive of a herbivore. Oliver Schlaudt cites the panel's repetition of an identical gesture as a case where repeated mark-making can drift toward tokenization, independent of any single mark's meaning.

Grotte Chauvet 2 Ardèche, photo by Patrick Aventurier — rights requested, pending confirmation.