Tristan Hughes

No, I know.

Come on, let's do the big basics.

Shall we explain what exactly are Neanderthals?

Talk us through this or who exactly are Neanderthals?

We might cover that quickly.

And just so we know the date range as well, Genevieve, so a large area, quite robust in their body features, but as you say, that diversity, that variety as well.

But time period for Neanderthals, do we think roughly over the last 500,000 years or so down to about 45,000 years ago?

And that feels certainly even more the case when trying to find examples, you know, potentially of Neanderthal art.

I mean, because generally how basic can we go with trying to describe what we believe could be art left by Neanderthals?

What types of art are we going to be talking about?

So we're not thinking at the moment, sadly, no, as of yet, Neanderthal Mona Lisa has been discovered or prehistoric Sistine Chapel equivalent.

We're thinking more like this is non-figurative drawings that have so far been discovered that we link with Neanderthals.

And these are the famous sites like Lascaux and Chauvet Cave, aren't they?

And Alteneira in Spain, you know, those...

Those iconic ones, if you type in cave heart.

Well, we are going to delve into a few of these key sites so we can really explore these artworks that have been associated with Neanderthals.

I'm very happy that you mentioned in passing that earlier simple marking of Homo erectus.

It's on a shell, isn't it, in Indonesia?

Or was it Java, one of those places?

But it's like 500,000 years old, the Trinil or Trinil marine shell?