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Natural PlacesSite Name: Parpalló Cave Alternative Name: Cueva del Parpalló, Cova del ParpallóCountry: Spain
NOTE: This site is 16.869 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Comunidad Valenciana Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Latitude: 39.004320N Longitude: 0.27165W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The Parpalló cave (Gandía, Spain) is one of the most important Palaeolithic sites in the Spanish Mediterranean region. It is characterized by portable art whose archaeological sequence covers a dilated period (26,000 to 11,000 BP) and includes plaquettes decorated with black and different shades of red and yellow pigments.
Discovery Year: 1929, First Description: Pericot García 1942
This small cave has three chambers and a narrow vertical entrance facing south. The main chamber is the largest, 5 by 6m, and the other two are rather small. Gravettian (level I), Solutrean (layers II-V), Magdalenian (layers VI-IX).
The cave is on a south facing slope of the Mondúver Range, located near Gandía, in the Valencia province, 450m above sea level and a few kilometers away from the current coastline.
Note: Analysis shows the artists in the Parpalló Cave used natural pigments made from natural iron oxides such as haematite and goethite, more in the comments on our page
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