Photo Archives: Paleolithic Art in Northern Spain
Hornos de la Peña
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Hornos de la Peña
Cueva de Hornos de la Peña is situated in the hill known as "La Peña", near the village of Tarriba, in the municipal district of San Felices de Buelna. The entrance is in the small, narrow valley of the River Tejas, 60m above the river-course, but this, only a few kilometers to the north, joins the wide, open plain of the Buelna valley.
The cave art in Hornos de la Peña was discovered in 1903 by the great explorer of the archaeology of the region Hermilio Alcalde del Rio. It was, therefore, one of the first caves with parietal art to be known in Europe. Three years later, this researcher included the cave in a small book together with the studies he had made of other Paleolithic art sites: Altamira, El Castillo and Covalanas. In 1911 it formed part of a major publication on Cantabrian cave art: Les cavernes de la region Cantabrique, written by the discoverer of Hornos de la Peña in collaboration with the prehistorians H. Breuil and L. Sierra. This 1911 publication remains the main reference to the parietal art in the cave. During those early years of the century, in 1909 and 1910 to be precise, archaeological digs were carried out in the vestibule of Hornos. The scientists of the Institut de Paleontologie Humaine at Paris documented an important stratigraphic sequence, with Mousterian, Aurignacian, Solutrean, and Magdalenian industry, and also Neolithic artifacts. Among the objects recovered was a piece of mobiliary art: a fragment of a horse's frontal bone, decorated with the rear-quarters of precisely a horse, and this enabled stylistic and chronological correlations to be made with the art on the walls inside the cave.
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[References]
Alcalde del Rio, H.; Breuil, H.; Sierra, L. 1911. Les cavernes de la region Cantabrique. Imp. A. Chene. Monaco.
Ucko, P.J. 1987. Débuts illusoires dans l'étude de la tradition artistique. Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Ariége-Pyrénées 42, pp.15-81.
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Commentary by César González Sainz & Roberto Cacho Toca, Univ. of Cantabria
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