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The Cave of Los Aviones, located at sea level near Cartagena in southeastern Spain, is a paleontology site dating back to the Middle Paleolithic era. It is famous for having yielded in 2010 several perforated and painted seashell beads thought to have been crafted as jewelry by Neanderthals. [1] [2] The cave is a cemented marine conglomerate.
The primary gallery of interest at the Sidron cave is the Ossuary Gallery or Tunnel of Bones (Galería del Osario), where the remains of several Neanderthals were found. The Galería del Osario was excavated from 2000 to 2013. [4] The Neanderthal remains were all recovered from a single layer, Stratum III. [3]
1.6 Spain. 1.7 Portugal. 1.8 Gibraltar. 1.9 Italy. 1.10 ... This is a list of archeological sites where remains or tools of Neanderthals were found. Europe. Belgium ...
It is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since July 2008, as part of the inscription: Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain. [ 1 ] The cave is located in the heart of the uniprovincial community, in the middle of the Pas River valley, around the cave of Hornos de la Pena and Monte Castillo, in the same group of ...
Altamira is located in the Franco-Cantabrian region and in 1985 was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as a key location of the Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain. [4] The cave can no longer be visited, for conservation reasons, but there are replicas of a section at the site and elsewhere.
The Caves of Nerja (Spanish: Cueva de Nerja) are a series of caverns close to the town of Nerja in the Province of Málaga, Spain. Stretching for almost 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), the caverns are one of Spain's major tourist attractions. Concerts are regularly held in one of the chambers, which forms a natural amphitheatre.
Cueva Des-Cubierta is the name of a cave in Pinilla del Valle, Community of Madrid, Spain where Neanderthal presence is noted for possible Neanderthal ritual significance due to specifically arranged collections of animal bones. The name has a double meaning in Spanish, as "Des-Cubierta" can be interpreted as both "discovered" and "uncovered ...
Entrance to the cave. The Cave of Maltravieso in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, was discovered in 1951.It shows traces of human occupation from the Middle Paleolithic.It contains cave art, most notably a total of 71 hand stencils, enumerated in the 1990s using ultraviolet photography, [1] but also linear designs and some animal paintings.