El Castillo Cave
Limestone cave above Puente Viesgo in Cantabria with hand stencils, red discs and animal paintings. Uranium-thorium dates make it the oldest securely dated cave art in Europe.
Dated events and their evidence
- 38,800 BCE mainstream
A red disc is covered by calcite at least 40,800 years old, the oldest minimum age for cave art in Europe source - 35,300 BCE mainstream
A hand stencil is shown to be older than 37,300 years, so painters returned over millennia source
Where
43.2922° N, 3.9653° W
Sources
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