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Cave art without the caves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Paul G. Bahn*
Affiliation:
428 Anlaby Road, Hull HU3 6QP, England

Extract

It is over a decade since Palaeolithic parietal art was first spotted in Europe on exposed open-air surfaces—cave art without the caves. Now the major site in Portugal is threatened by the lake behind a river-dam under construction. Here is a report on what cave art outside the caves amounts to, and of the confrontations over the Côa site that were in the headlines early this year.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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