Cave of Maltravieso
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Cave of Maltravieso
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The Cave of Maltravieso in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, was discovered in 1951.
It shows traces of human occupation from the Middle Paleolithic.
It contains cave art, most notably a total of 71 hand stencils, enumerated in the 1990s using ultraviolet photography, but also linear designs and some animal paintings.
In a 2018 study based on uranium-thorium dating, a hand stencil from the Cave of Maltravieso was dated to 64,000 years ago. This would make it Middle Paleolithic art, predating the pre
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Cave and archaeological site in Spain
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2024-01-15T05:41:17Z
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