Cuevas de la Araña
The Cuevas de la Araña (Eng .: Spider Caves ) are a group of caves in the municipality of Bicorp in the Spanish province of Valencia in eastern Spain. They are located in the Reserva Nacional de Caza Muela de Cortes, about 60 kilometers southwest of the city of Valencia . The caves are located in the valley of the Escalona River and were used by prehistoric people who left numerous cave paintings there . The paintings show, among other things, hunters with bow and arrow .
The most famous drawing is a on a tree gekletterte person with one hand a living in a tree hollow colony exploits and maintains a collection vessel in the other hand. This is one of the earliest known depictions of the capture of bee products such as honey and beeswax . The dating of this rock drawing , also known as the honey hunter , is controversial in the archaeological literature and the information varies between 10,000 and 6,000 BC.
The caves were discovered in the early 20th century by local teacher Jaime Garí i Poch and have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Prehistoric Rock Art in Eastern Spain since 1998 .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Eva Crane: The Rock Art of Honey Hunters . International Bee Research Association, Cardiff 2001, ISBN 0-86098-237-8 , pp. 19-22 (English).