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The
cave of Sovilla is located in the homonymous village, in
San Felices de Buelna, very close to the Hornos de
la Peña cave. What
today is preserved of this cave is the terminal room,
because its fore part was destroyed by a quarry in the
50s. But it could be reconstruted as it was thanks to the
information from the people who knew it before it was
partially destroyed. Besides the blowing up made by the
menbers of the quarry, poachers have seriously damaged
the deposit, partially destroying the stratigraphy and
making inscriptions over the palaeolithic figures. Under
these inscriptions, a team from the University of
Cantabria leaded by César González Sainz has been able
to locate, recently several figures of hinds, horses bison and one reindeer besides other
non-figurative evidences. All the representations are
engraved, some of them even with scraping inside, this
technique could be used to prepare the wall or to get a
sensation of volume, depending on the zone where it
appears. After the researchs made, it gets confirmed that
the group is from the Magdalenien period. |
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