Conservation of paleolithic cave art in the Capova cave

Abstract

The Kapova Cave Shulgan Tash is located in Bashkortostan the Southern Urals in the Shulgan Tash Reserve This is the only cave in Eastern Europe where Paleolithic drawings of about years old are preserved To date about images are known in the cave including realistic zoomorphic drawings abstract geometric figures and ochre spots The paper is devoted to the conservation of ancient drawings and their peculiar features The cave art resembles West European analogues but it has specific features This suggests the existence of a kind of a center of ancient culture in the Southern Urals in the Paleolithic