Profiled hands in Palaeolithic art: the first universally recognized symbol of the human form

Walker, James W.P.; Clinnick, David; Pedersen, Jan B.W.

doi:10.1080/21500894.2016.1243573

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“…One tangible link to those who made the representations is provided by the corpus of Palaeolithic hand stencils and ‘finger-fluting’ impressions. Walker et al (2018) highlight the unique properties of the human hand that make it a universally recognisable image that transcends cultural divisions. Hand stencils and finger flutings are also permanent records of the moment of direct physical contact between artist and ‘canvas’, offering clues to the identity and physical presence of the authors, such as age and sex, right- or left-handedness, and missing or bent fingers (e.g.…”

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Who painted that? The authorship of Schematic rock art at the Los Machos rockshelter in southern Iberia

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Who painted that? The authorship of Schematic rock art at the Los Machos rockshelter in southern Iberia

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“…As a part of our body, hands and fingers are the earliest and most frequently used tool, and they are not an extra burden for us. In early human history, our ancestors painted on cave walls with their hands and fingers [8]. Various novel sensors have been applied in handwriting recognition to enable users to write freely and naturally like our predecessors did, as well as to accurately read what has been written.…”

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Real-Time Finger-Writing Character Recognition via ToF Sensors on Edge Deep Learning

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Human–computer interaction is demanded for natural and convenient approaches, in which finger-writing recognition has aroused more and more attention. In this paper, a device-free finger-writing character recognition system based on an array of time-of-flight (ToF) distance sensors is presented. The ToF sensors acquire distance values between sensors to a writing finger within a 9.5 × 15 cm square on a surface at specific time intervals and send distance data to a low-power microcontroller STM32F401, equipped with deep learning algorithms for real-time inference and recognition tasks. The proposed method enables one to distinguish 26 English lower-case letters by users writing with their fingers and does not require one to wear additional devices. All data used in this work were collected from 21 subjects (12 males and 9 females) to evaluate the proposed system in a real scenario. In this work, the performance of different deep learning algorithms, such as long short-term memory (LSTM), convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM), was evaluated. Thus, these algorithms provide high accuracy, where the best result is extracted from the LSTM, with 98.31% accuracy and 50 ms of maximum latency.

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“…Over the past century, hand stencils have been growing in interest because they are not only a ubiquitous representation of human artistic behaviour in rock art assemblages but also an undebatable illustration of the presence of humans on the landscape (e.g., Walker et al, 2018). Various studies have focused on the technical aspects of the imagery, such as the hand size and whether the stencil is of a female or male hand (Faurie & Raymond, 2004;Nelson et al, 2006Nelson et al, , 2017Pettitt et al, 2015;Rabazo-Rodríguez et al, 2017;Snow, 2006Snow, , 2013.…”

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Hand stencils and communal history: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

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Archaeology in Oceania

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Hand stencils directly represent modern humans in landscape settings around the world. Yet their social and cultural contexts are often overlooked due to the lack of ethnography associated with the artwork. This paper explores the hand stencils from Kundumbue and Pundimbung rock art sites, situated in the traditional boundaries of the Auwim people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Combining archaeological rock art analysis with ethnographic knowledge, we demonstrate that the hand stencils are a priority in each clan's place-making practices, around which they construct the community's social narratives. Rock shelters and their rock art also show a form of communal history that is evoked through their production in contemporary settings, in addition to having been a form of esoteric magic in the past. We conclude that hand stencils can have multiple meanings over time and across space as a widespread cultural marker. However, aspects of the identities of individuals, groups and communities who created the now static hand imagery, remain in place.

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Profiled hands in Palaeolithic art: the first universally recognized symbol of the human form

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Who painted that? The authorship of Schematic rock art at the Los Machos rockshelter in southern Iberia

Who painted that? The authorship of Schematic rock art at the Los Machos rockshelter in southern Iberia

Real-Time Finger-Writing Character Recognition via ToF Sensors on Edge Deep Learning

Hand stencils and communal history: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

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