- Cueva de los Casares
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Main entrance at the Cave of Los Casares
One of the many paleolithic hierogamies of Los Casares, in that representing a sexual act.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.
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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Coordinates: 40°57′27″N 2°17′27.34″W / 40.9575°N 2.2909278°W
Categories:- Archaeological sites in Spain
- Caves of Spain
- Stone Age Europe
- Spain stubs
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