Archaeology: Altamira

Cave of Altamira 

• The Cave of Altamira is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Palaeolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands.
• It was the first cave in which prehistoric cave paintings were discovered.
• When the discovery was first made public in 1880, it led to a bitter public controversy between experts which continued into the early 20th century,…