Review of Seven Years of Research in the Decorated Cave of El Castillo (Cantabria, Spain)

With its impressive stratigraphic sequence, the hundreds of motifs that decorate its walls and the dozens of portable art works discovered there the cave of El Castillo is a major Upper Paleolithic site. Other than the first study realized by H. Alcalde del Río, H. Breuil and L. Sierra in 1912, and...

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Published inPalethnologie no. 5
Main Authors Groenen, Marc, Groenen, Marie-Christine, Ceballos del Moral, Jose Maria, González Echegaray, Joaquín
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Presses universitaires du Midi 30.01.2013
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Summary:With its impressive stratigraphic sequence, the hundreds of motifs that decorate its walls and the dozens of portable art works discovered there the cave of El Castillo is a major Upper Paleolithic site. Other than the first study realized by H. Alcalde del Río, H. Breuil and L. Sierra in 1912, and a few occasional works, there is no published work on this important parietal art site. It was thus urgent to conduct a new exhaustive study using the most modern research methods in this domain. O...
ISSN:2108-6532
2108-6532
DOI:10.4000/palethnologie.2229