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The Cave of Parpalló and the Upper Palaeolithic Age in southeast Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

V. Gordon Childe
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The Spanish slopes of the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian chains are rich in classic caves and galleries of art of the Upper Palaeolithic Age. In the southeast Spanish coastal belt, on the other hand, while many shallow rock-shelters are adorned with lively painted scenes, classed by Burkitt as Group II of the Cave Art, no complete or stratified record of the activity of old stone age hunters had been published till Prof. L. Pericot Garcia explored scientifically the cave of Parpalló in the Province of Valencia in 1929–31. The sumptuous publication of his results, delayed of course by the civil war, is of exceptional importance as a contribution to fill in this painful hiatus in our knowledge but also for the very surprising results it records.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 69 , March 1944 , pp. 29 - 35
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1944

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References

* La Cueva del Parpalló (Gandia) : Excavaciones del Servicio de Investigación prehistórica de la exenta. Diputación provincial de Valencia, by Luis Pericot Garcia. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto Diego Velázquez, Madrid, 1942, pp. 351 and XXXII plates.

The reference on p. 30 to Fig. 3 must be read as Fig. 1.