01-05-2017 05:18 via yahoo.com

A Spanish quest to hand down prehistoric secrets

Cáceres (Spain) (AFP) - It's dark and surprisingly warm in a cave in western Spain that hides our most intimate connection to the prehistoric past -- hand silhouettes painted tens of thousands of years ago.Archeologist Hipolito Collado and his team had not entered the Maltravieso Cave in the city of Caceres for close to a year to avoid damaging the 57 faded hands that adorn the walls, precious remnants of a far-flung piece of history we know little about.Do they tell us anything about the
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