Neanderthal Paintings: Cave Show Fondness Of Arts

Cave paintings created by Neanderthals about 65,000 years ago show that they had a fondness for creating art, making them possibly the first artists on earth.

Scientists have discovered Neanderthals were painting stalagmites in Europe at a time when modern humans did not inhabit the continent.

The discovery is shocking because Neanderthals have been perceived as unsophisticated and brutish but the caves painting is an incredible feat for them to achieve.

The cave-paintings found in three caves in Spain, one of them in Ardales, were created between 43,000 and 65,000 years ago, 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe, what could confirm that art was invented by the Neanderthals some 65,000 years ago.