https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3w3mm/archaeologists-discover-worlds-oldest-neanderthal-cave-engravings

Scientists have discovered the oldest engravings made by Neanderthals in the world on the walls of a French cave, reports a new study. The captivating lines, curves, and dots, made by Neanderthal fingers, date back at least 57,000 years—and possibly as early as 75,000 years—making them the oldest known graphic traces of any human species on a shelter wall in Europe.

The discovery that Neanderthals carved out these ancient lines, curves, and dots inside La Roche-Cotard, a cave near the Loire River, illuminates the sophisticated and symbolic behaviors of our long-lost relatives, who belonged to the same human family as Homo sapiens before they went extinct about 40,000 years ago.