It's been found fairly recently that 75% of cave art was made by women, challenging the accepted idea of cave artists being predominantly male.
As far as I know, previously hand/thumb ratio had been analysed, seems that recently fingerprints have been analysed to asses the sex and age of the artists.
www.theartnewspaper.com/news/fingerprints-help-identify-prehistoric-painters
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Women & cave art
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ArabellaScott · 19/09/2020 22:45
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