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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.

Chauvet Cave Palm-Print Panel (Grand Panneau des Points-Paumes)

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