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The Upper Paleolithic of Cantabrian Spain

✍ Scribed by Lawrence Guy Straus

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 377 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 1060-1538
DOI: 10.1002/evan.20067

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✦ Synopsis

Study of the Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic began in the 1870s with excavations by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola in the caves of El Pendo, Camargo, and especially Altamira, where, in 1878, he discovered rupestral paintings and recognized their relationship to the Ice Age archeological deposits he was digging in the vestibule of the cavern 1 (Fig. 1). Following two decades of dismissal by most of the prehistoric "establishment," Cantabrian prehistory once again asserted its importance with the discovery, a century ago, by H. Alcalde del Rı ´o and Lorenzo Sierra, of such major art and

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