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The parietal
evidences of Las Aguas cave were discovered by Hermilio
Alcalde del Rio in 1909. The cavern is located at 14
kilometers from Torrelavega and 6 kilometers from
Santillana del Mar. A big shelter opens the cave, where
at the moment of the discovery, two engraved and red
painted bisons, a sign in grill, one claviform and red
dots. In the 80s, a new study was made by M.R. González
Morales and C. González Sainz, members of the University
of Cantabria, who
located new figures. What for the discovers were simple
engraved lines, after a detailed interpretation of the
engravings by the investigators from the University of
Cantabria, they clearly saw a beautiful head of hind and
another one of horse. All the
cave decorations are located deep inside. It still has to
be verifyed if in the engravings zone could exist a
primitive entrance that today would be hidden by
materials. If this was true, it would be an exterior
group, changing it from interior to exterior.
Chronologicaly the group is situated in the initial or
middle Magdalenien.
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