caves spread around Spain, a collection of cave paintings showing red lines, dots, a ladder pattern and a hand stencil were dated at 64,000 years ago. This makes them the oldest known cave paintings and places the artists well before Homo sapiens were in the area: the only culprit could have been Neanderthals. These were clearly not the hulking caveman brutes of pulp films as they showed a cultural sophistication at least the equal of Homo sapiens.
While modern Homo sapiens only reached Europe about 50,00