Letter stencils are a great tool for artists, designers, draftsmen, and anyone else who wants a quick, easy, low-tech way to add consistent and precise lettering to art, murals, signs, and other ...

You report that prehistoric hand stencils on cave walls with various digits missing could represent a sign language. I am a computer scientist, not a linguist, so I have a different take on the matter ...

The artists who spattered paint around their hands placed on cave walls 40,000 years ago can now be identified as either male or female. A new method borrows techniques from forensic science to find ...

The hands could represent signals used while hunting animals, as suggested, but perhaps we are seeing an early classroom, and the stencilled wall is a blackboard to teach youngsters which gesture ...