Were most cave painters women? Their hand prints say yes.  Cave
paintings around the world often include hand stencils,
impressions left by blowing paint around a hand. A new study
measured those hands and concludes that 75 percent of hand
prints in Spain and France show women's hands, not the hands of
men or boys as has long been assumed.  By , Correspondent    •
close     Male and female hands are different both in size and
in the ratio between the fingers. These differences enabled Dean
Snow of Penn State to examine hand stencils in cave paintings
(the outline impression of a hand left by blown paint) and
determine that most of the measurable hand prints came from
women, not men or boys.     View Caption  Look at your hands. Is
your ring finger longer than your index finger? And is your
pinkie finger almost as long as your ring finger? If you
answered yes to both questions, you're probably a man. (That or
you're a woman with "man hands.")  The role of finger ratios to
sex has been known for years, but a ne