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The Vasco-Cantabrian region of northern Spain, together with southwestern France, is one of the richest areas in terms of Paleolithic cave art, but, until recently, by far the highest concentration...

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  • The Vasco-Cantabrian region of northern Spain, together with southwestern France, is one of the richest areas in terms of Paleolithic cave art, but, until recently, by far the highest concentration of sites had been in the central-western sector: the provinces of Cantabria and Asturias

  • The important geostrategic position of the Basque Country between southwestern France and northwestern Iberia seemed to contradict the marginal role traditionally suggested by the parietal art record

  • This fact was even more striking given the nature of this area as a corridor, located as it is between the two European regions with the richest and most numerous rock art records: the French Central Pyrenees and the Périgord, and Cantabria and Asturias

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The Vasco-Cantabrian region of northern Spain, together with southwestern France, is one of the richest areas in terms of Paleolithic cave art, but, until recently, by far the highest concentration of sites had been in the central-western sector: the provinces of Cantabria and Asturias. The main contribution to the subject of rock art in the late twentieth century was the publication of general summaries of Basque Paleolithic cave art (Altuna 1994; Apellániz 1989, 1990; Barandiarán Maestu 1988) and the “authorship” studies by J.

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