Thanks to FReeper Viiksitimali for the article.
I find the seals to be derivative, the pallet to be uninspired and the whole genre to be passe. Where’s the wit? Where’s the contradiction?
Nice caves. Better visit soon, before they revert to Islam.
Traces of pottery, ceramics, prehistoric tools, human remains and wall paintings have all been found within the caves. Since the caves discovery over fifty years ago, more than one million pieces have been discovered and catalogued.
Perhaps these were painted by Neanderthal women. Women, after all, like to decorate the cave ... men would be just as happy to leave it in the same condition in which they found it. I certainly know a lot of single guys still living in undecorated caves, with nothing except a huge TV on a milk crate, and some old bucket seats.
Or these might have been painted by Neanderthal women as a form of shopping list. “Don’t forget to bring home a few seals, dear. We’ll eat them for dinner, and I could also use a new coat.”
Ok. Here’s my question:
Those stalactites look to be pretty long and the seals seem to be in a long line going up into the upper area of the cave so:
1. Did the Neanderthals invent the first ladder to complete the seals in one sitting?
2.Did they hang the seals and outline them? Is that blood used as a medium? (I ask because my uncle has a painting from a famous Spanish painter who used the blood from bulls killed in the Fiesta Brava as his medium for bullfight paintings.)
3.Were they painted on the stalactite over time as it grew longer? Would have been a world’s record for the longest “sitting” I think.
Just askin’ cause any answer is cool.
This is what a neanderthal actually looked like: 
YOU may have "people" like that in your family tree; I can tell you for a fact that I don't.
www.themandus.org