A new red figure in El Buxu Cave (Cangas de Onís, Asturias)
This brief article has for objet to present the fortuitous discovery of a red animal in El Buxu cave (Asturias). This is the silhouette of a quadruped with only one leg by pair without extremities drawn by a slightly modelling thick line. Due to the bad conservation, the represented species is diffi...
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| Language: | English |
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Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Zephyrus |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0514-7336/article/view/13058 |
| Summary: | This brief article has for objet to present the fortuitous discovery of a red animal in El Buxu cave (Asturias). This is the silhouette of a quadruped with only one leg by pair without extremities drawn by a slightly modelling thick line. Due to the bad conservation, the represented species is difficult to identify: it might be a cervid or more probably an aurochs. This preliminary note presents only some photos and a sketch of reading, but a complete study will probably allow to identify the species of the animal and to precise its stylistic characteristics. This figurative representation with its stylistic features adds a new interest to the red traces already known in El Buxu cave in the context of the ante-Magdalenian caves of the Cantabrian Region. |
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| ISSN: | 0514-7336 2386-3943 |