In 1879, Spanish aristocrat and newbie archaeologist Marcelino Sanz de Sautuloa and his daughter Maria set out to explore a cave close to their loved ones property in Cantabria. Although De Sautuola scrambled all around the ground hunting for prehistoric artefacts, Maria wandered off deeper into the cave. Abruptly she stumbled across a ceiling lined with dozens of paintings. The drawings had been of aurochs, a extensive extinct species of ox. They had been painted by the Magdalenian individuals amongst 14,820 and 13,130 years in the past. At the time students had been stunned that early humans were being capable of creative expression, but the origins of artwork extend substantially…