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La Clotilde cave
was discovered by Mr. Hermilio Alcalde del Rio and H.
Breuil, in 1906. It is a cave not very known by the
natives, because it is semihidden by the vegetation.
Despite all, during the time it was open, it was a place
of transit. As it can be nowadays verified, some figures have been seriously
damaged by unscrupulous people. This has made that in a
few years works of art that got to be preserved during
millenniums, a have now dissapeared. This is not a lonely
act. On the contrary many caves with art have lost part
of their figures, or have been affected with the
uncrupulous acts, like making inscriptions
with carbide or writing their names over
palaeolithic engravings, like in the Sovilla
cave .
In Clotilde, six bovids a
possible feline, and other non-figurative traces, all of
them made on clayey wall, perhaps using the fingers or
some instrument of rounded tip. Because of the little
coventional style of the figures and the impossibility to
date it by physical-chemical methods, it is very hard to
situate it chronologically, although last investigations
tend to situate them in recient moments of the Upper
Palaeolithic.
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