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Cova Dones: A surprising Palaeolithic cave-art site
A major new cave-art discovery has recently been made in Cova Dones, Spain. The nature of these images poses fascinating questions about how and where Palaeolithic people created such art, as Aitor Ruiz-Redondo told Matthew Symonds.
The east coast of Spain is not an obvious place to go hunting for Ice Age cave art. While the country is renowned for the striking visions of animals and shapes gracing sites such as Altamira and El Castillo, these repositories of ancient artistry are not evenly distributed. Instead, more than 70% of the Ice Age cave-art sites known in the world are concentrated in a relatively modest band of northern Spain and southern France. It is a very different story along Spain’s Mediterranean face. There, the star of the show is the cave of Parpalló, but it is a curiosity in many ways. Rather than serving as a canvas for the great tableaux of wild animals dominating popular perceptions of Ice Age
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