Posted on 05/27/2016 1:19:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The cave joins that at Altamira as one of Spain’s most exciting and best-preserved set of cave paintings and for Garate, marks a career high.
"Without doubt it is the most important discovery of my career," he told The Local.
"I have been searching the caves of the Basque Country for ten years and have discovered lots of new caves but none as important as Atxurra. It could very well be the cave with the most animal figures in the Basque Country," he added.
The Atxurra caves were originally discovered in 1929, but as the paintings are at a depth of 300 metres, they went undiscovered until now.
Spain boasts a number of cave paintings including Altamira, which has been billed as the "Sistine Chapel of Paleolithic art".
In March 2015, 20,000-year-old cave paintings were discovered in Cantabria, northern Spain, making the area the "European capital of rock art"
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.es ...
Yes. Clearly homeless people lived in these caves.
Do national borders stop at a certain depth?
It helps to check the post someone is replying to.
When there wasn’t even any Hollywood?
There’s another story about that, I just hadn’t gotten around to posting it. :’)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/uoy-haa052516.php
They all meet at the center of the Earth. :’)
Thaaaaaaaat doesntcount.
I wanted you to picture something more like flying spudmen.
You know. Levitaters.
LOL
Steely Dan - The Caves of Altamira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l6PR4l3FF8
Two mythical 4 legged chickens on the left, in the Yorkshire Post video?
It's fun to have fun, but I think your theory is more on the mark as to why these drawings were made so long ago.
Think of the extremely limited technology of the time for securing food and the time and effort expended.
Then the logistics and skills necessary in making a suitable fire for cooking and another for the cave artists.
It seems more likely that the artists of those times and their works were valued by the people of their time, and ours.
They’re more mobile than the legless four-winged chickens.
Levitaters... they wear blue jeans, even though they have no legs, it’s weird...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
