"New radiocarbon dating results indicate that six seals painted on the walls of the Nerja cave in Málaga, southern Spain, are more than 42,000 years old, making them the oldest human art on record. Neanderthals lived in the area at that time — they died out about 30,000 years ago — and they are known to have eaten seals. The Homo sapiens who followed them also painted on the cave walls, but no depictions of seals have been found in any of their art."
— http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21458-first-neanderthal-cave-paintings-discovered-in-spain.html
(Source: thehistoryblog.com, via hillbillyplease)
