Cueva de los Casares
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| Native name Spanish: Cueva de los Casares |
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| Location | Riba de Saelices, Spain |
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| Official name: Cueva de los Casares | |
| Type | Non-movable |
| Criteria | Monument |
| Designated | 1935[1] |
| Reference no. | RI-51-0001089 |
 Location of Cueva de los Casares in Spain
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Cueva de los Casares is a cave in Riba de Saelices in Guadalajara, Spain. Discovered in 1933, it contains a number of paleolithic cave paintings, and is most notable for a series of paintings depicting what some have argued is the earliest representation of human understanding of the reproductive process, featuring images of copulation (perhaps mediated by a mysterious shaman figure), pregnancy, childbirth, and family life. Mammoths and other animals feature frequently in the illustrations. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1935.[1]
There are many representations of animals, anthropomorphs (human-like figures), and ideomorphs (including penises, vulvas, tools, and more abstract images).
The cave and its paintings are little known to scholars outside Spain.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Database of protected buildings (movable and non-movable) of the Ministry of Culture of Spain (Spanish).
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