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<< Our Photo Pages >> Cueva de Tito Bustillo - Cave or Rock Shelter in Spain in Asturias

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Natural PlacesSite Name: Cueva de Tito Bustillo Alternative Name: Cuevo de Tito Bustillo, Cuevona de Ardines y Aula
Country: Spain
NOTE: This site is 0.497 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Asturias Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Ribadesella  Nearest Village: Ardines
Latitude: 43.460663N  Longitude: 5.067663W
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Cueva de Tito Bustillo
Cueva de Tito Bustillo submitted by hailstones : The Cave of Tito Bustillo is located in Ribadesella, a seaside village in the Asturias, Northern Spain. A limestone cave with paleolithic cave art of horses, bison, reindeer that were painted during the last Ice Age 25,000 o 30,000 BC. These animals are found in the Galleria de los Caballos although there are apparently 50-60 more that have been found recently. The historian Rodrigo de Balbin has ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave in Asturias. The Cuevo de Tito Bustillo (Cave of Tito Bustillo) is dubbed one of the greatest sanctuaries of European Paleolitic Art by the owners. The area around the estuary of river Sella has always been an ideal place and was continually inhabited for the last 25,000 years. The caves are located ideally and have always been used as a shelter.

The deep recesses were used as a sactuary and over the years almost completely painted. And it seems the discoveries in the cave have not ended by now, lately almost 60 new figures have been discovered.

The Galeria de los Caballos shows several engraved figures of big horses, bisons and reindeers from the Ice Age. There are also exceptional carvings with sexual motives, phallic symbols which are considered the first depiction of masculine sex in rock art. In the cave of Lloseta, the upper level of the cave system, penis shaped objects made of stalagmites were found. Even a huge stalagmite, which obviously is a natural phallic symbol was covered by red colour made of iron oxide. The Camarìn de las Vulvas (chamber of the vulvas) is 300m away. It is one of very few depictions of female sexual known to science.

The Riosellano culture seems to have had an extreme longevity. It existed some 18,000 years on this location.

The visits to the cave are limited to 360 persons per day and 24 per group. The tours are guided in Castellan

Source: Showcaves.com


Note: New method used to date cave art, see comment
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Music in Palaeolithic Painted Caves, Northern Spain by Andy B on Friday, 15 December 2017
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This set of recordings was made in 5 caves, El Castillo, Las Chimeneas, La Pasiega and La Garma in Cantabria, and Tito Bustillo in Asturias. These caves are part of the Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain World Heritage Site. A team of musicians, acousticians, artists and archaeologists, travelled to northern Spain to explore the acoustic ecology of these caves.

All of the caves feature dramatic cave art, and the sounds of the spaces are similarly impressive. A number of recordings were made in the caves to demonstrate their acoustics, using reconstructions of instruments that could have been played at the time. Some of the paintings in the caves are over 30,000 years old. The more recent paintings are mostly more than 10,000 years old.

More details can be found on the project website. There are a number of recordings, as well as a film of the project.

https://musicarchaeologyrecordings.wordpress.com/recordings/palaeolithic-painted-caves-northern-spain/

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Link by coldrum on Tuesday, 07 July 2009
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In Spanish.

http://tematico.asturias.es/cultura/yacimientos/titobustillo.html
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Re: New method used to date cave art by hailstones on Friday, 17 October 2008
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Lovely to see Tito Bustillo getting some press! There are so many beautiful places to see in The Asturias. Thanks Andy B for posting this up!!!
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Re: New method used to date cave art by Andy B on Wednesday, 15 October 2008
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More links:

http://www.desdeasturias.com/asturiasbasica/rutas.asp?idruta=7&lg=I&loc=55

http://www.texnai.co.jp/shop/eng/preview/asturias/tito/tito.html

http://www.spain.info/TourSpain/Arte+y+Cultura/Monumentos/C/BP/0/Cueva+del+Tito+Bustillo+(Ribadesella)?Language=en
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New method used to date cave art by Andy B on Wednesday, 15 October 2008
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Experts from the University of Bristol are to attempt to accurately date prehistoric caves.

The team from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology travelled to northern Spain to collect samples of paintings from more than 20 caves.

They will use a new method, based on the radioactive decay of uranium, to date the paintings.

Samples have been taken from the cave of Tito Bustillo in Asturias and La Pasiega Cave in Cantabria.

Dr Alistair Pike, the project leader said: "These cave paintings are one of the most intimate windows into the minds of people who lived more than 15,000 years ago, but have proved extremely difficult to date.

It's not unusual for us to spend 10 hours a day underground, but the paintings are so spectacular it's always worth it

"Traditional methods of dating the pigments, such as radiocarbon, are destructive to the paintings, and the samples are prone to contamination.

"We are using a new method that can date thin calcite layers that have formed over the surface of the paintings."

In the course of the three year project, the researchers hope to more than double the numbers of dates on European prehistoric cave art.

They will then relate their findings to the expansion and contraction of human populations in response to the changing climate of the last Ice Age.

"Some of the paintings were deliberately done in the least accessible parts of the caves so there's often a lot of crawling," said Dr Pike.

"It's not unusual for us to spend 10 hours a day underground, but the paintings are so spectacular it's always worth it."

As well as representations of horses, deer and cattle, the caves also contain more than 100 abstract symbols and several series of isolated dots.

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