Did Neanderthals Make Art in Spain 64,000 Years Ago?

In 2018 researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology released a paper claiming rock art in three Spanish caves must have been made by Neanderthals. The media world-wide instantly echoed the claims as fact and it is now believed to be fact by many if not most people who have knowledge of the topic due to the media coverage. But is it fact? I'm a former science teacher. Let's verify the science.

The original study https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap7778

Link to book "Journey on the Outside, My Life as an Activist" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VRF7G63

National Geographic, NBC and Guardian coverage of the story, all over-the-top and all repeated as essentially fact....

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/neanderthals-cave-art-humans-evolution-science

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/neanderthals-were-cave-artists-researchers-find-n850366

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/22/neanderthals-not-humans-were-first-artists-on-earth-experts-claim