stencil

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The hand stencil dates back at least 67,800 years, making it the oldest reliably dated cave art ever found.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

A simple hand stencil found on a cave wall in Indonesia has been identified as the oldest known example of rock art on Earth.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

A light source with a very tight wavelength, somewhere between ultraviolet light and X-rays, shines through a chip-shaped stencil and onto the silicon wafer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Extreme ultraviolet light is reflected off of a stencil that contains the pattern for billions of transistors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“Will you hand me the stencil? This one needs a touch-up.”

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry