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👋😎Hi friends! to say goodbye in this #Fridaypaleoart to the month of July we are going to visit a small but fascinating cave:

Cave: #Lluera I
Place: San Juan de Priorio (Asturias, España)
Motif: horse, aurochs, deer.
Chronology: #Premagdalenian

➡️We refer to the Cueva de la Lluera I, a small cave located a few meters from the Nalón River (Asturias, Spain) and which was scientifically discovered in 1979 and first studied by Professor Javier Fortea.

📖The artistic activity is found in outdoor areas and in twilight, concentrating on the walls of the left gallery, very close to the entrance.

The technique used by the artists was engraving with a simple deep and wide stroke, which was sometimes combined with the use of the forms of the parietal relief.This technique shows us the imagination and previous planning of the artist, since he saw the figure before drawing it

❗️In the closest area to the current entrance a large horse was engraved with various linear signs. Aurochs, horses, hinds, a male goat and other incomplete animals were represented on the Entrance Panel.

☝️😌However, the most careful engravings are in the Great Niche. In this area the same bestiary is represented as in the Entrance Panel minus the goat, thus presenting a well-known classic auroch-horse-deer pattern.

⁉️The parietal representations are attributed to the Solutrean period (21,000-17,000 B.P.) from conventions such as the representation of the line of the mouth in the hinds, or by means of parallels with other caves of the Nalón river or the cave of Chufín (Cantabria).

The data obtained in the excavations of the cave show the same chronology.🤔

➡️In them, lithic tools possibly used for artistic production, such as burins, have been recovered, together with fauna from the same period. We highlight a pendant made up of six deer canines in and a triangular ocher plate.

💻References:

➡️RODRÍGUEZ-ASENSIO, J. A.; BARRERA, J. M. Las ocupaciones solutrenses de las cuevas de La Lluera. Excavaciones Arqueológicas en Asturias, 2007, vol. 2012, no 7.

➡️researchgate.net/profile/Jose-M…

Finally, if you are interested in getting to know this fantastic outdoor sanctuary of Palaeolithic art, we encourage you to visit it. We leave you the web: turismoasturias.es/descubre/cultu…

A. Torres-Riesgo (@Torres_Riesgo)

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