Cueva de Tito Bustillo
| Cueva de Tito Bustillo
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 Today's cave entrance |
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| Location: | Asturias , Spain | |
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Geographic location: |
43 ° 27 '38.5 " N , 5 ° 4' 3.7" W | |
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| Discovery: | 1968 | |
| Website: | centrotitobustillo.com | |
The stalactite cave Tito Bustillo is known for its Stone Age cave paintings and is part of the Ardines massif, a karst system near Ribadesella , Asturias , Spain . The paintings belong to the Franco-Cantabrian cave art and are part of the UNESCO World Heritage .
history
The cave was inhabited by Cro-Magnon people until the tenth millennium BC . Due to a fall, the original entrance to the cave was sealed thousands of years ago, which favored the preservation of objects, tools and wall paintings.
The cave was discovered on March 18, 1968 by a group of Spanish speleologists. One of the discoverers, Celestino Fernández "Tito" Bustillo, died shortly after the discovery in a mountain accident. Then the cave was named "Cueva de Tito Bustillo" in his honor. It is also known under the name of the entry hole as "Cueva del Pozu'l Ramu" ( Asturian ). The researchers discovered the cave through this hole .
The cave has been explored since it was discovered. The inventory included objects from the late Magdalenian and Upper Palaeolithic , some harpoons made of bones and a goat's head carved from stag horn. With numerous well-preserved prehistoric paintings, it is one of the most impressive examples of paleoculture in northwestern Spain. The oldest of these paintings depicts people and is approximately 33,000 years old as determined by radiocarbon dating. Some scientists believe that Neanderthals may have painted the pictures, although this theory has not been proven.
The motifs in the various galleries of the cave are horses, deer, elk and even a marine animal, probably a whale. There are also images that represent female genitals and are considered fertility symbols.
The UNESCO took the cave in 2008 on the List of World Heritage in.
Plan of the cave system
Cave inventory: bone carving
Permanent exhibition in the Centro de interpretación de la Cueva de Tito Bustillo in Ribadesella
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Miguel Polledo González: El Arte Paleolítico de Tito Bustillo , Ménsula Ediciones, Pola de Siero 2011
- ↑ Polledo González, Miguel: El arte Paleolítico de Tito Bustillo: cazadores y artistas en la cueva del Pozu'l Ramu . 1ª ed. Ménsula, Pola Siero, Asturias 2011, ISBN 978-84-614-9939-7 , pp. 50 .
- ↑ Polledo González, Miguel: El arte Paleolítico de Tito Bustillo: cazadores y artistas en la cueva del Pozu'l Ramu . 1ª ed. Ménsula, Pola Siero, Asturias 2011, ISBN 978-84-614-9939-7 , pp. 51 .
- ↑ Polledo González, Miguel: El arte Paleolítico de Tito Bustillo: cazadores y artistas en la cueva del Pozu'l Ramu . 1ª ed. Ménsula, Pola Siero, Asturias 2011, ISBN 978-84-614-9939-7 , pp. 112.114 .
- ↑ Alok Jha: Neanderthals may have been first human species to create cave paintings. In: The Guardian. June 14, 2012, accessed September 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Polledo González, Miguel: El arte Paleolítico de Tito Bustillo: cazadores y artistas en la cueva del Pozu'l Ramu . 1ª ed. Ménsula, Pola Siero, Asturias 2011, ISBN 978-84-614-9939-7 , pp. 125 .