The cave art discussion is always an interesting one. I agree.
But part of this landscape is the fact that society has ‘rebooted’ on numerous occasions (because of continuing meteor strikes on the Earth). And eventually, another catastrophic event will occur, and we will reboot again.
Adding to the discussion....this last strike (12,900 years ago) now brings out the discussion item that maybe more than 75-percent of the animal species at the time were wiped out. So you look around the wonder about things.
How did man survive this period? It’s not fully explained yet. I suspect that DNA will eventually piece together something that will give us more insight.
Perhaps 75% of the living creatures might have been killed, but I doubt if very many species were eliminated. That 75% figure might be accurate for the Yucatan meteor 65mya, or 35% for the Chesapeake Meteor 34mya. But the species extinction seems to have been more for the large animals, rather than all the animals 12,900kya.