Cave Painters were Male and Female?

In France’s Pech Merie cave, prehistoric artists painted murals surrounded by ‘stencils’ of their hands (where someone had placed a hand on the wall and it had been painted over/around, leaving a clear hand shaped piece of wall surrounded by paint). A study by archaeologist Dean Snow has challenged the received wisdom that these stencils, and thus possibly the paintings, were created by men. As he told National Geographic “even a superficial examination of published photos suggested to me that there were lots of female hands there", and careful analysis, compared to what we know about male and female anatomy, has revealed this to be true. It raises the possibility that other European cave painters, or at least people involved in some parts of the creation, could also have been a mixture of males and females.