Non-human hands found in rock art

Adam Khor

http://www.livescience.com/53944-prehistoric-rock-art-nonhuman-hands.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+(LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed)

Linnaeus

Intriguing. The human figures seem to almost surround the gecko handprints, as in a kind of ritual...But the possibility exists that these little hands were painted at a later time. Why were they depicted at all? This is a mystery; but I suspect that the artists, observing the nearly human form of these hands, were filled with a kind of religious awe, perhaps feeling the presence of a being at the same time animal, human and divine (physical-metaphysical), which needed to be worshiped and represented reverently on walls of stone.

Such a lovely work of art, as well as a marvellous mystic experience from the dawn of mankind.

Adam Khor

Or aliens :B

Linnaeus

Aliens? As far as I know, extraterrestrials haven't been associated with Wadi Sura. But there ARE depictions of strange "astronaut"- like figures elsewhere in the Libyan desert and in the Maghreb.

As for "aliens" in the sense of "foreigners", wait till you see the astonishing White Lady: portrayed upon stone in the midst of the North African desert, surrounded by artistic renderings of tropical animals and wee figures that wear Phoenician-type caps, this Lady dating back to the Neolithic is dressed in heavy Alpine clothing and boots! An intrusion in the Libyan desert, to be sure, an immigrant...Hope to send a link about her in a day or so.

I mistakenly described the little hands found at Wadi Sura as "gecko" hands. Sorry: they apparently belong to a monitor lizard, not a gecko.