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Some Results of New Investigations at the Kapova Cave in the Southern Urals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2014

V. E. Shchelinsky
V. E. Shchelinsky*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences, Dvortzovaja Nab, 18 Leningrad 191065, USSR
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In 1982 investigations were resumed at the Kapova Cave in the Urals, which was already widely known for its rock paintings dating from the Upper Palaeolithic period. It is, to date, the only authentic site of its kind in Eastern Europe.

The cave is situated on the western slopes of the southern Urals in the valley of the Belaya River 200 km south of the city of Ufa (fig. 1). It is a cave of a karst type that evolved in limestones of the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. The enormous entrance to the cave facing south-east is in the narrow gorge of the canyon of a U-shaped valley at a distance of 150 m from the Belaya River at a height of 7–8 m above its low-water level (pl. 31). The total length of the cave's passages investigated is 2 km (fig. 2).

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , 1989 , pp. 181 - 191
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1989

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