Over 100 prehistoric engravings found in northeastern Spain
STORY: Over 100 prehistoric engravings found in northeastern Spain
DATELINE: March 23, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:27
LOCATION: TARRAGONA, Spain
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
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1. various of the engravings
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Over a hundred "exceptional" engravings from between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago have been discovered inside a cave complex in Tarragona of Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia.
The engravings were depicted on an eight-meter-long panel on a wall in the Cova de la Vila cave.
Researchers from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) said the engravings are "exceptional, both for their singularity and for their excellent state of conservation."
Although the cave was first found in 1941, the engravings were only discovered in May 2021 by three cave explorers. Arranged in five horizontal lines, the engravings depict animals, star shapes and geometric patterns which IPHES specialist Ramon Vinas said "are not a random composition but clearly have a symbolic meaning" for the Ne
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