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Drawings in the polychrome ceiling of the Altamira cave in Santillana Del Mar, Cantabria, Spain #237929007
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The Cave of Altamira is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric parietal cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied during the Upper Paleolithic, around 36,000 years ago.The site was discovered in 1868. Iin 2002, the
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