'Culturally significant' handprints may be fake

This is an interesting case, my own view is that in this case the best option is to assume the artifacts are real, until a full investigation is done.

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Multiple red hand prints found in a cave near Glenbrook train station, that an expert said were Indigenous and "culturally significant", have been exposed as fakes created by teenage brothers in the 1960s. The rock art was discovered during work to remove a 20-tonne boulder that threatened the Blue Mountains railway line, west of Sydney, in late March. It extended the weeks of delays on the train line as buses replaced services. An archaeologist, with a specialty in Indigenous heritage, said at the time that the hand prints were "culturally significant".

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/austr...ake/ar-AACJjfC

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