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Venta Laperra |
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The
representations of the cave Venta Laperra were discovered
in 1904 by Lorenzo Sierra. In spite of being a cavern
situated in Biscayan territory, the border with Cantabria
is so close that it often caused mistakes about exact
location. In fact in the first study of this cavity the
authors include in what then was the province of
Santander. The huge mouth, that
can be observed from the road, is the access to a
spacious cavity. In an exterior zone of the cave,
illuminated by sun light, we find a small group of
figures formed by three bisons and one bear. They are made using the deep engraving lines.
Other non-figurative engraved lines are also seen. The
situation of the figures in an exterior zone, as well as
its archaic style and the employed technique allow the
cronology to be set in the beginnings of the cantabric
palaeolithic art, this is, in an advanced point of the
Gravettian or in the begining of the Solutrean,
approximately between the 25000 on the 20000 before the
present (B.P).
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