aves must have had a special meaning because people returned to them time after time... the prehistoric artists must have felt that their art would be of some specific benefit to their communities" (48).
Three major sites in Northern Spain were also discovered to have various cave paintings; presumably painted by the Magdalenian people sometime between 16,000- 9,000 BC. One of the most important caves to this region was the Altamira Cave at Altamira, Spain. This work of art has become named 'Bison' as it portrays 15 large bison with a few interspersed animals including a horse. The bison are seen gracefully running along the ceiling of the cave. Animals portrayed on the walls are of bison, deer, wild boar, and other combinati
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