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

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Not just in the past: Racist and sexist biases still permeate biology, anthropology, medicine, and education

“…Similarly, more and more scientific studies are supporting the idea that it is likely that women were not so "passive" as explained in, for example, a paper by Martínez-Sevilla et al 44 A similarly recent paper questions sexist narratives about men being "natural leaders," by showing that very likely a woman occupied a highly prominent position in a major European society about four millennia ago. 45 One clear example of how sexist narratives about "coy" and "sexually passive" women still permeate current academia is that many current scientists continue to discuss what they call the "puzzle" of female orgasm (see, e.g., Pavlicev and Wagner 46 ).…”

“…Similarly, more and more scientific studies are supporting the idea that it is likely that women were not so “passive” as explained in, for example, a paper by Martínez‐Sevilla et al 44 A similarly recent paper questions sexist narratives about men being “natural leaders,” by showing that very likely a woman occupied a highly prominent position in a major European society about four millennia ago 45 …”

An Archaeology of Body Traces: Finding Everyday Hands From Minoan Crete

“…Fowler et al . 2020; but also see Martínez‐Sevilla et al 2020 for rock art). If we are talking about traces of marks left by human bodies, however, we ought to include here studies which have examined footprints (e.g.…”

“…Kamp et al 1999) and interrelations between craftspeople and other users of mainly ceramic artefacts (e.g. Fowler et al 2020; but also see Martínez-Sevilla et al 2020 for rock art). If we are talking about traces of marks left by human bodies, however, we ought to include here studies which have examined footprints (e.g.…”

Rock Art and Children: Towards an Inter-Generational Perspective on Past and Present Visual Cultures

“…Mundorff et al (2014) has identified an apparent statistic dimorphism of the breadth of the ridge of female and male fingers among modern populations. These variations have been adopted to discuss the authorship of paintings in various contexts (Martínez-Sevilla et al 2020). It has also been used to reveal children's presence and their participation in creating artwork (Kamp et al 1999 that an Aurignacian painted limestone plaque fragment from Hohle Fels in Germany has been decorated with double rows of dots stamped on with juvenile fingertips.…”