Each painting in this video comes from the Cave of Altamira, located near the historical town Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. The Cave is renowned for its prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied during the Upper Paleolithic, around 36,000 years ago. The Cave was discovered in 1868 by Modesto Cubillas and subsequently studied by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola. Aside from the stri