Thread by @PreGraphity

Welcome to another warm summer morning! 👋😎(or at least that's what we hope!) 🤓
Today is #FridayPaleoart and we are going to visit a recently discovered site... 👇😉
Cave: #Danbolinzulo
Place: Zestoa, Gipuzkoa
Motif: Red painted and engraved goat
Chronology: #Premagdalenian

⁉️This is a really small cave (with least than 30 meters of development), currently accessed through a small hole in #Ertxiña mountain.
💭It would be interesting to known how was the cave during the Upper Paleolithic. ➡️Currently, there are a lot of blocks and some speleothems.

❗️The cave is small, but it is very well placed over a narrowing of #Urola valley.
☝️😌It was known by @Antxieta_Taldea in 1980 when they located some post-paleolithic remains, but in 14th of dec. of 2014, they found red paintings inside, confirmed as paleol. by @MGarcia_Diez.

This discovery is especially important because of two main reasons.

1⃣ It is part of the filling of the "basque void" of paleolithic rock-art (compare the maps below), mostly due to @GarateDiego and his team, @Antxieta_Taldea and other #caving clubs.

2⃣ It contains figurative motifs from ancient phases of Paleolithic art, which were rare (or unknown) in the region 10 years ago!

🤔How do we know that?

@_blancaochoa et alli, from the @upvehu studied the paintings and concluded that they contain features from ancient phases.

➡️Among them, we can see that the back legs of the animals are drawn without perspective and in a pointed shape.

📖@GarateDiego concluded in his PhD thesis about cantabric red animals (usually made with dots) that they contain this feature, sometimes with double perspective...

... while the front ones use to be drawn without it or alone.☝️🤓

👉Regarding the chronology, they are always appear under striated hinds (dated in Lower Magdalenian) in caves as #Llonín, for example. But In caves as #LaGarma or #Pondra some TL and U/Th datings were made.

For example, in zone IV of #LaGarma, with a notable similarity to #Danbolinzulo (both stylistically and thematically), there are some aberrant datings, but when two dating methods (TL and U/Th) coincide, they seem to show an Aurignacian or Gravettian chronology (as in #Pondra).😳

💻References:
➡️elkar.eus/es/liburu_fitx…
➡️journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/69…
➡️www-cambridge-org.ehu.idm.oclc.org/core/journals/…
➡️aranzadi.eus/fileadmin/docs…

The cave is closed, but sometimes @ekainberri offers special tours (e.g. #OndarearenEuropakoJaurdunaldiak).

I. Intxaurbe (@inaki_intxaurbe)

End of thread!!👋😉