Question

Several caves in Spain are sites of prehistoric rock paintings. Approximately when were the earliest, line motifs and stencilled hands, believed to have been painted?

Answer 1

63,000 BCE
The paintings are a red linear motif in La Pasiega (Cantabria), a hand stencil in Maltravieso (Extremadura), and red-painted speleothems in Ardales (Andalucía). The well-known cave paintings near Santillana del Mar (the Altamira caves), Spain are dated to possibly 34,000 BCE, those in Lascaux, France to about 17,000 – c. 15,000 BCE.