Talk:Cueva de las Manos

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[edit] Gender and sources

The article describes these hands as being of either boys or men. What identifies them as specifically male? Durova 03:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

It's the conservator's idea that the hand prints were part of a 'reaching manhood' ritual, and it is only a theory. Perhaps it's not clear from the article. I'm affraid I have no sources other than what the guides told us when we where there. Mariano(t/c) 07:26, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

And even more specifically, they give us the age! [sic] "They resemble the hands of a 13 year old boy." Why 13? Why not 12 or 14? -- the GREAT Gavini 06:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

The conservator didn't even consider that it might be a coming-of-age ceremony for girls undergoing menarche, or some kind of ceremony for adults? Nice assumption there. --Charlene 04:44, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External link proposal

I propose this external link about the Cueva de las Manos

http://www.jordibusque.com/Index/Stories/CuevaManos/CuevaManos_01.html

Please, let me know what do you think. Panex 17:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

The pictures already in the article cove pretty much most of the ones you can find in this site. Missing things in the wikipedia article are the guanacos' pictures. The pictures are nevertheless quite good, and the comments are also in English, and the information in coherent with that of the Wikipedia. I will include it. --Mariano(t/c) 19:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

add some more to this