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	Altamira (cave)
		Altamira (Spanish for 'high view') is a cave in Spain famous for its cave paintings.
		The cave was excavated by de Sautuola and then by Herminio Alcade del RÃo in 1902-04, the German Hugo Obermaier in 1924-25 and finally by JoaquÃn GonzÃ¡lez Echegaray in 1981.
		Altamira was closed to the public in 1977 as the paintings were being damaged by visitors' damp breath and only limited access is now possible.
	sports.abcworld.net /Altamira_%28cave%29.html (624 words)

	Museum of Altamira \| Museum \| The Cave of Altamira \| Conservation
		Altamira Cave is located in a karst system witch, in geological terms, is coming to the end of its life.
		This natural process of degradation is aggravated by the structure of the cave, formed by horizontally bedded limestone strata, increasing the danger of breakdown and the collapse of large blocks.
		Because of this risk of a large-scale collpase, between 1924 and 1950, thick walls were built inside the cave in order to support the roof and avoid the total loss of the cave.
	museodealtamira.mcu.es /ingles/conservacion_altamira.html (128 words)

	Cave Paintings
		Cave art portrays human hands; large numbers of animals in different activities, including various species, such as the woolly rhinoceros, which are now extinct, and a few which were extinct even at the time they were painted; geometric figures and signs.
		Cave water and the calcium it contained were used as mixers, and vegetable and animal oils as binders.
		Thus cave art was thought provoking, and the thoughts it provoked provided the impetus for men and women to lay the foundations of theories of life, and of the universe.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/C/cave.html (2368 words)

	Cave - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Cave, chamber beneath the surface of the earth or in the side of a hill, cliff, or mountain.
		Caves vary in size and shape, and many have large...
		Altamira, cave 30 km (19 mi) west of Santander, in northern Spain, whose walls bear paintings and engravings—chiefly of bison, deer, horses, and...
	encarta.msn.com /Cave.html (148 words)

	Altamira (cave) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Altamira (Spanish for 'high view') is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands.
		The cave was excavated by Sautuola and archaelogist Juan Vilanova y Piera from the University of Madrid, resulting in a much acclaimed publication in 1880 which interpretated the paintings as paleolithic in origin.
		Altamira was completely closed to the public in 1977, and reopened to limited access in 1729.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altamira_(cave) (1023 words)

	Cave painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times.
		The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands as well as abstract patterns, called Macaroni by Breuil.
		Cave paintings are found in the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southeast Algeria also in the Akakus, Messak Settafet and Tadrart in Libya and other Sahara regions including: Ayr mountains, Niger and Tibesti, Chad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cave_art (860 words)

	Amazon.de: Cave of Altamira: English Books: Pedro A. Saura Ramos,Antonio Beltran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While Altamira has been mentioned in recent books on the subject, e.g., The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves (LJ 2/1/99), this collection of essays updates the information and images documented by excavators Henri Breuil and Hugo Obermaier in their 1935 monograph, The Cave of Altamira at Santillana del Mar, Spain.
		Altamira's art dates back around 15,500 years (due to radioactive dating techniques), but it originally drew little attention because it was too wonderful to be real.
		They describe the history of the cave, the evolution of theories about what the art means, descriptions of how the art was probably created, and the difficulties of preserving and recording the cave's contents.
	www.amazon.de /Cave-Altamira-Pedro-Saura-Ramos/dp/0810919893 (1125 words)

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		CAVE ART CAVE ART ____ ___ I In 1868 a large number of people in many parts of the world became interested in some caves near the little village of Altamira in northern Spain.
		The cave artists knew that the changes of weather near the mouth of the cave would be bad for their pictures, so the caveman's art is 50 metres or more from the cave mouth.
		According to paragraph 8, the cave artists often drew the things that hunters used in their paintings, and painted them with the animal in the picture because a.
	faculty.biu.ac.il /~korens/eflsk/begin2/2-cave (1291 words)

	Santander Caves
		By accident we came across the Cave of Altamira (which was closed to the public shortly after our visit) in the countryside.
		Naturally interested because of the many beautiful caves I had visited in Australia, we soon found out that only 10 people were being admitted each day, and that one had to write to the Minister of Tourism before hand and be allocated a date in the future.
		Cave of Altamira showing the ceiling and part of the original floor level bottom left corner.
	home.iprimus.com.au /gus_tillers/santandercaves.htm (661 words)

	Cave Paintings
		Cave art portrays human hands; large numbers of animals in different activities, including various species, such as the woolly rhinoceros, which are now extinct, and a few which were extinct even at the time they were painted; geometric figures and signs.
		Cave water and the calcium it contained were used as mixers, and vegetable and animal oils as binders.
		Thus cave art was thought provoking, and the thoughts it provoked provided the impetus for men and women to lay the foundations of theories of life, and of the universe.
	artchive.com /artchive/C/cave.html (2366 words)

	A new 'Altamira' Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles
		Altamira was closed to visitors for five years because the heavy traffic was damaging the cave art.
		Great pains have been taken to reproduce the cave as it was 14,000 years ago, before being abandoned by cave dwellers and sealed shut by a collapse of the opening.
		The cave is made of crushed limestone and resin and painted to scale by hand, using the same materials and techniques employed by the original artist or artists.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20010729/ai_n13918183 (869 words)

	Deutsches Museum - Altamira Cave
		Only after the discovery of more Stone Age caves, whose paintings could be dated on the basis of their relationship to the archaeological find, and further research, were they finally confirmed as originals.
		The cave paintings were made nearly 15 000 years ago in the late paleolithic period.
		Today, the cave is no longer open to the general public and may only be visited on a long-term basis and by making a written application.The exhibition contains descriptions of the complicated processes evolved by the Deutsches Museum for reproducing an exact copy of the original in terms of shape and the materials used.
	www.deutsches-museum.de /ausstell/dauer/altamira/e_alta.htm (392 words)

	Altimira Cave PaintingsAltamira (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The paintings are located in the deep recesses of caves in the mountains of Northern Spain, far out of the reach of the destructive forces of wind and water.
		Altamira is the only site of cave paintings in which the signs of domestic life extend into the first cavern which contain the actual paintings.
		Another advance in technical development at Altamira is that many of the animals are painted on natural protrusions from the rock face; most samples of cave painting ignore the natural character of the rock concentrating on only one dimension.
	www.droitsweb.com /Druids/Altamira.html (565 words)

	Cave replica takes heat off mankind's first art
		The cave is at rest again, just as it had been for 14,000 years until a hunter stumbled upon the entrance 132 years ago.
		Altamira was inhabited and painted at the close of the last Ice Age.
		The large cave is filled with charcoal drawings, engraved animal figures and mysterious graphic designs, but the world's imagination has been fired most by the 21 red bison that cover the ceiling of the Polychrome Chamber.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news207.htm (1726 words)

	Cave - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Cave, chamber beneath the surface of the earth or in the side of a hill, cliff, or mountain.
		Caves vary in size and shape, and many have large...
		Altamira, cave in Spain with noted prehistoric art
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Cave.html (132 words)

	Altamira Cave - tips by travel authority Howard Hillman
		The large prehistoric paintings and engravings on the ceiling of the Altamira Cave are so impressive that they have been dubbed the Sistine Chapel of the Stone Age.
		A landslide sealed the Altamira Cave entrance, hiding it until it was discovered in 1868 by a hunter.
		That's why the Altamira Cave is now closed to the public except for about two dozen lucky visitors per day.
	www.hillmanwonders.com /spain/altamira_cave.htm (265 words)

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		Though some of the caves have been known for centuries, most were discovered — or rediscovered — in the 20th century.
		Like Lascaux 16 years before it, Altamira shut down in 1979 after tourist numbers of almost 180,000 a year endangered the cave; it reopened in 1982 with a limit of 8,000 annual visitors.
		Altamira, too, constructed a replica of part of the cave as a diversion for tourists barred entry to the real thing, and in 2002 — a year after Lascaux was hit by fungal infection — the original Altamira cave was shut down again.
	members.aol.com /carlevarom/documents/LascauxCaves.doc (546 words)

	CNN.com - arts & style - Ancient bison art re-created for Spanish cave replica - July 31, 2000
		ALTAMIRA CAVE, Spain (AP) -- Five visitors stand in the bright daylight outside the extraordinary cave.
		The cave was at rest again, just as it had been for 14,000 years until a hunter stumbled upon the entrance 132 years ago.
		Altamira was inhabited and painted at the close of the last Ice Age.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/STYLE/arts/07/31/altamira.cave.ap/index.html (1909 words)

	AltaMira Press: About AltaMira Press
		AltaMira Press exists to disseminate high quality information of value to those who research, study, practice and read in the humanities and social sciences with a particular focus on helping in the professional development of those who work in the cultural life of a community—the museum, historical society, arts center, and church.
		AltaMira is also a preeminent publisher in the field of archaeology, where we are the publisher of choice for those engaged in cultural resources management and public archaeology work.
		Altamira Cave in northern Spain is where the first paleolithic rock art was discovered in the 19th century.
	www.altamirapress.com /RLA/About (894 words)

	Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum)
		Although the cave and its paintings are known all over the world, the dramatic history of its first investigator, Don Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola,
		The cave was found by a local hunter, Modesto Peres in 1868.
		He began excavations in the cave and invited his friend, a well-known specialist in the field of prehistoric archaeology, professor of the Madrid university Juan Vilanova y Piera for a consultation.
	vm.kemsu.ru /en/palaeolith/altamira.html (399 words)

	Ficha Paleolítico --- Cueva de Altamira
		The Altamira cave is located 30 kilometers West of Santander, in the village of Santillana del Mar. By the entrance to the cave,
		Thanks to the fact that te cave was blocked by a natural collapse at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic, the parietal evidences and the Altamira cave deposit got to be conserved.
		It can be said that the cave was decorated since the Solutrean until the final Magdalenien, date when the natural collapse that closed the entrance to Altamira occurred.
	grupos.unican.es /arte/Ingles/prehist/paleo/b/Default.htm (717 words)

	Altamira caves (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Altamira, cave famous for its magnificent prehistoric paintings and engravings, situated 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of Santander, in northern Spain.
		The cave, discovered by a hunter in 1868, was visited in 1875 by Marcelino de Sautuola, a nobleman from Santander, who found animal bones and flint implements there.
		Sautuola returned in the summer of 1879 and on one visit was accompanied by his little daughter Maria; it was she who first noticed paintings of bulls (actually bison) on the ceiling.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/88/altamira-caves.html (271 words)

	Altamira Cave Paintings
		Altamira is the only site of cave paintings in which the signs of domestic life extend into the first cavern which contain the actual paintings.
		Another advance in technical development at Altamira is that many of the animals are painted on natural protrusions from the rock face; most samples of cave painting ignore the natural character of the rock concentrating on only one dimension.
		And finally, they were fortunate enough to have resided in caves so remote that all their hard work and creativity would remain unscathed for thousands of years.
	www.thenagain.info /Webchron/World/Altamira.html (547 words)

	Cave Art3
		Cave art is distributed in different parts of the caves, from right at the entrance - therefore coinciding with the living area - to the end of the cave.
		Other arguments were the fact that stalagmitic layers covered some of the paintings, or that the entrances of decorated caves had been blocked by natural processes, and these were only uncovered by large scale public works, such as quarries or roads, or by using caving equipment or sophisticated diving techniques.
		Similarly, the start of some decorated cave passages may have been blocked by sediments of a later Paleolithic occupation, or walls with rock art were covered by occupation levels, or pieces of the wall containing art had broken off and become integrated in the stratigraphy.
	www.muse.or.jp /spain/eng/caveart3.html (2700 words)

	Cave Art of Spain - A Rock Art and Archaeology adventure in the caves of the Cantabria and Asturias regions of northern ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Altamira, Covalanas, Monte Castillo, La Loja, Tito Bustillo, El Buxu, and El Pindal are on the menu and will provide you with an intimate look at the art of our Paleolithic ancestors.
		Altamira is currently undergoing treatment for a biological infestation and is closed to all researchers and the general public.
		The caves that were chosen for the tour were spectacular.
	www.walkingsoftly.com /spaincaves.htm (1007 words)

	The Altamira Caves>> Prehistoric Art and cave paintings.
		But what gives more value to the cave paintings of the Altamira Caves is the exceptional character of its polichromy.
		The Altamira Cave paintings can be regarded as the most advanced achievement of the Paleolithic times.
		In the Medium Magdaleniensis period the Cave collapsed in part and it was in this time when the cave was abandoned.
	www.casonadenaveda.com /english/routes/altamira.htm (313 words)

	Santillana del Mar : Attractions : The Altamira Caves \| Frommers.com
		Cave Painters from 15,000 Years Ago--Altamira is not the only ancient cave in the region.
		Lying in a medieval hamlet in the Pas Valley, this cave was excavated under the 350m (1,150-ft.) peak of the mountain, Monte del Castillo.
		The caves are open April to October, Tuesday to Sunday 9am to noon and 3 to 6:30pm; November to March, Wednesday to Sunday 9am to 2pm.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/santillanadelmar/1206024324.html (617 words)

	Cave painting Summary
		The cave paintings are thought to date from about 20,000-15,000 B.C. Their vivid pigments have most likely been preserved by a natural process caused by rainwater seeping through the limestone rocks to produce a preservative-acting saturated bicarbonate.
		Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times.
		Cave paintings are found in the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southeast Algeria also in the Akakus, Messak Settafet and Tadrart in Libya and other Sahara regions including: Ayr mountains, Niger and Tibesti, Chad.
	www.bookrags.com /Cave_painting (2417 words)

	Spanish and Portuguese Heritage and History
		From Altamira to Atapuerca, or Mérida to Medina Azahara.
		Access to the famous cave paintings of Altamira is now restricted to a handful of people a day and the waiting list has grown to something like three years.
		As the Altamira cave-paintings have been deteriorated by the mass of visitors, the Deutsches Museum of Munich was commissioned to make a replica for the National Archeological Museum, Madrid.
	spainforvisitors.com /sections/heritage.htm (730 words)

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