A study claims that paleolithic artists visited cave system to deprive themselves of oxygen and experience hallucinations.
Source: Study Suggests Ancient Cave Painters Deprived Themselves Of Oxygen To Get Hallucinatory Visions
Bug Alert: Mutant Bug Damaging Prehistoric Cave Paintings In Spain; Minority Reporter
Paleolithic ‘Sanctuary’ Containing Rock Art From 15,000 Years Ago Discovered In Spain; Aristos Giorgiou; Newsweek
Battle erupts over ‘elitist’ UNESCO World Heritage cave art plans; Joe Duggan; Olive Press News Spain
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Access to Palaeolithic paintings in Cantabria to be auctioned off to highest bidder…
Source: Battle erupts over ‘elitist’ UNESCO World Heritage cave art plans – Olive Press News Spain
Are visitors, or Mother Nature, damaging Altamira’s cave paintings?; Guillermo Altares; El Pais
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Spain’s Culture Ministry has been handed conflicting reports on preserving the Unesco site…
Source: Are visitors, or Mother Nature, damaging Altamira’s cave paintings?
“You have to see this before you die”; Elsa Fernandez-Santos; El Pais
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A daily lottery allows a handful of people into reopened Altamira cave complex…
Altxerri cave paintings confirmed as oldest known in Europe; El Pais
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Team of scientists dates wall art at 39,000 years old…
Source: Altxerri cave paintings confirmed as oldest known in Europe
Cave artwork found in Spain is confirmed as oldest in Europe at 40,800 years old and could have been painted by Neanderthals; Graham Smith; Daily Mail
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The Palaeolithic paintings in northern Spain have been precisely dated for the first time, proving the art form began in Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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