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Period: Early Quaternary (Late Pleistocene, Late Tarantian) Date: 30,000 BC Location: Western Europe Nighttime in southwestern Europe. A Homo sapiens man is busy making a lamp, twisting a piece of Red Deer sinew around using his teeth to make a wick. He pours some scavenged Steppe Bison fat into a hollowed flat stone, and uses an ember from a campfire to ignite it. He turns and enters a narrow passage in the cliff face behind him, and begins to walk deep into a cave system. Led by the flickering flame, his shadows rise and fall against the walls of rock, as he walks, crawls and climbs for as much as half an hour to reach a vast cavern deep