Cambridge University researchers have notified that some of the primitive cave engravings of France were made by nearly 3-year-old children.

These engravings are as old as nearly 13,000 years and children must have been assisting their parents in the work. The prehistoric art finger paintings are the lines that are drawn through fingures on soft surface.

In south-west France, at Rouffignac cave there are a lot of engravings of mammoths, horses and rhinoceros which were made by the people with their figures on the walls and roofs of the soft surfaces.

The researchers have formulated a way through which the age and the gender of the artist could be revealed and to everybody’s astonishment it was identified that some of the drawings were made by kids as old as three years. Also, it has been notified that the best work was by a 5-year old girl.

According to Archaeologist Jess Cooney stated that the team had recognized that young kids between the ages of three and seven had been involved in the art work and they had located it through their hand marks.

''We don't know why people made them. We can make guesses like they were for initiation rituals, for training of some kind, or simply something to do on a rainy day”, Cooney stated.