Aboriginal art and culture

[Pere Margalef]

On the internet there is a search about: " Rupestrian Art of the Mediterranean Arch".
Those web pages explain you about of caves and shelters paintings of Europe,particulary in this case on the east Iberian peninsula area.
The paintings offer a retrospective exhibition, representing the evolution of our species in a few moments of changes ( climatics, culturals,...)
These works are made mostly between 9.000 bc and 1.500 bc.

[Lali]

In Spain there are the caves of Altamira in Cantabria. This cave is carved into the rock and has paintings on the ceiling and cave walls of cave paintings from the Paleolithic period. In 1985 they were declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco. The cave was discovered in 1868 by an Asturian who found the entrance with his dog a day of hunting. The paintings of the cave are the first prehistoric pictorial discovery and it was so surprising that it aroused distrust in some scientists. Altamira is part of the Upper Paleolithic. The habitants of the Altamira area were tribes of nomadic hunters, formed by between 20 and 30 people. The cave was habited for 22,000 years. The Bison is one of the most expressive and admired paintings of the whole. It is painted on a bulge of the vault. The Great Doe, the largest of all the figures represented, is 2.25 m. It manifests a masterful technical perfection and is one of the best forms of the great roof. For some years they have been closed to the public because their conservation has been questioned. In 2014 they were opened again to the public with a limitation of five visitors a day for only 37 minutes.