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World History

frogmarch

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5. Some years ago on TV

Reply to RZM (Original post)

Sun Aug 12, 2012, 06:43 PM

Aug 2012

I saw a paleoanthropologist demonstrating how such hand stencils were done.

He mixed powdered red ochre with his own saliva and put the mixture into his mouth. Then he placed his hands on the surface he was going to decorate and spat the mixture in short bursts - ptooh ptooh ptooh ptooh ptooh - between his splayed fingers.

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