Landmark Europe archaeological
Cave of Altamira
38,000 years ago
Paleolithic cave in northern Spain with polychrome bison paintings, called the 'Sistine Chapel of Prehistory'
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38,000 years ago — older than the timeline's axis, which begins at 9000 BCE. Drawn to the same scale as the rest of the canvas, everything since would be a single pixel, so Cave of Altamira sits on the deep-time shelf instead.
Image credits1 picture from Wikimedia Commons
- Cave of AltamiraMuseo de Altamira y D. Rodríguez · CC BY-SA 3.0
