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What 37,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings Reveal About Our Ancestors | Bbc Timestamp

Deep inside prehistoric caves in northern Spain, some of the earliest traces of human creativity still survive. Dating back tens of thousands of years, these ancient paintings reveal a moment when art, music and imagination began to flourish among our earliest ancestors.

This clip is from Civilisations (2018).

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