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Researchers find 280 Ice Age engravings that tourists walked past for decades in a Catalan cave
The drawings include 55 animals; before this, only two such images were known in all of Catalonia.
In short
280engravings found
- Engravings: 280
- Animals depicted: 55
- Previously known in Catalonia: 2
The discovery
A study in the journal Antiquity reports 280 engravings, including 55 animals such as horses, wild oxen, bears, goats and deer, deep inside Cova de la Font Major in Catalonia, Spain. The cave has been a tourist site for decades and a museum since 1993.
Why it matters
It is now the third-largest collection of Ice Age engravings on Spain's Mediterranean side. Only two such animal images were previously known in Catalonia. People lived in the area as long ago as about 40,000 BCE.
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