In art, Late Paleolithic finger tracings in clay, the oldest form of art known. Innumerable examples appear on the walls and ceilings of limestone caves associated with human habitation in France (Pech Merle) and Spain, the oldest dating from about 30,000 BC. They range from simple scratchings and jumbled lines to deliberate meanders and arabesques and outline drawings of animals and are so-called because they look like pieces of macaroni. It is thought that these macaroni, like the numerous foot and handprints pressed into the clay of the caves, were inspired by animal tracks.