Background: child's handprint, c. 27,000 years old, El Castillo cave, Cantabria, Spain.

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Netherlands

Exploring the prehistoric origins
of art, culture, and symbolic expression

The LIACARA Foundation supports the documentation, preservation, and study of humanity's earliest cultural heritage, with particular focus on Paleolithic art, early symbolic behavior, and deep-time human history.

The foundation works with researchers, institutions, and cultural heritage communities worldwide to support research, knowledge sharing, and the responsible stewardship of archaeological heritage.

Child's handprint · El Castillo cave · c. 27,000 BP

Hematite hand stencil from cave wall

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