Altamira (Spanish for 'high views') is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands.
The Altamira cave, now famous for its unique collection of prehistoric art, was well known to local people, but had not been given much attention until in 1868 it was "discovered" by the hunter Modesto Peres.
Marcelino de Sautuola then started exploring the caves in 1875. He did however not become aware of the paintings until 1879, when his daughter Maria, nine years old at the time, incidentally noticed that the ceiling was covered by images of bison. Sautuola, having seen similar images engraved on Paleolithic objects displayed at the World Exposition in Paris the year before, rightly assumed that also the paintings might be dating from the stone-age. He therefore engaged an archaeologist from the University of Madrid to help him in his further work. (wiki)
@truegrit Exactly. This song is about a kid who discovered the paintings as a young man and would sit in the cave just marveling at the drawings and using his imagination. Before there was even any Hollywood makes the 1800's reference seem correct.
@truegrit Exactly. This song is about a kid who discovered the paintings as a young man and would sit in the cave just marveling at the drawings and using his imagination. Before there was even any Hollywood makes the 1800's reference seem correct.
Altamira (Spanish for 'high views') is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands.
The Altamira cave, now famous for its unique collection of prehistoric art, was well known to local people, but had not been given much attention until in 1868 it was "discovered" by the hunter Modesto Peres.
Marcelino de Sautuola then started exploring the caves in 1875. He did however not become aware of the paintings until 1879, when his daughter Maria, nine years old at the time, incidentally noticed that the ceiling was covered by images of bison. Sautuola, having seen similar images engraved on Paleolithic objects displayed at the World Exposition in Paris the year before, rightly assumed that also the paintings might be dating from the stone-age. He therefore engaged an archaeologist from the University of Madrid to help him in his further work. (wiki)
@truegrit Exactly. This song is about a kid who discovered the paintings as a young man and would sit in the cave just marveling at the drawings and using his imagination. Before there was even any Hollywood makes the 1800's reference seem correct.
@truegrit Exactly. This song is about a kid who discovered the paintings as a young man and would sit in the cave just marveling at the drawings and using his imagination. Before there was even any Hollywood makes the 1800's reference seem correct.