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Emboscados cave is located in the town of Matienzo,
between the basins of the Ason and Miera rivers. This is
an area with an important presence of lime materials,
being this favorable to the development of a karstic
system, with multiple caverns, some of them are decorated
since the palaeolithic. Los Emboscados cave is situated
in the Southern side of the Fuente Las Varas Mountainīs
hillside. A shelter gives access to the cave, consisting
of an almost rectilinear long gallery. One hundred and twenty five meters from the
entrance, in an aproximately 20 meters long stretch, a
panel where more than a dozen representations of animals
have been documented, like incomplete figures and others
difficulty interpreted. The animals that can be
identified are deers and goats. Very fine engraving is the
preponderantly employed technique, but there are
evidences in red paint, and agrille-shaped sign, which
has been represented on soft limestone using either the
finger or an instrument of rounded tip, that gives a
thicker aspect to the engraving.
The representations of the Emboscados
have been chronologically situated in the last periods of
the Magdalenien.
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