Anytime we learn about our ancestry, our history, it’s positive news. As we see more and more young adults unaware of some of the most basic facts involving their history, we see a culture growing away from itself, not truly understanding its own roots.

The cavemen were a little different…okay, a lot. Recent evidence suggests that cavemen…cavepeople actually, took tens of thousands of years to complete the artwork in their caves. Neanderthals tend to elicit a sense of being slow…but this gives a whole new meaning to their overall speed.

According to research done by a group of archaeologists who have been studying cave paintings in Europe, many of these paintings apparently were done in a long-term, collaborative fashion, with generation upon generation adding their signature piece. The length of time for some of these collaborative pieces? 20,000 years. That’s right. 20,000 years. It stretches the mind to imagine this kind of artistic long-term connectivity, especially when people today may become frustrated when a website doesn’t load quickly enough!