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Rock art sites tagged “neanderthal”

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🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art

La Pasiega Cave

Middle Paleolithic to Magdalenian ~64–11 ka BP · Neanderthal and later Solutrean/Magdalenian

Monte Castillo cave with 64 ka Neanderthal ladder motif and 700 parietal figures.

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🇧🇪 Belgium · Cave

Grotte de Ramioul

Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic · Mousterian / Aurignacian / Neolithic

Limestone cave in Flémalle with Mousterian to Neolithic deposits (70,000–2500 BCE), Neanderthal tooth, Upper Palaeolithic engravings and Neolithic collective burial.

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🇬🇷 Greece · Rock shelter

Asprochaliko Rock Shelter

Middle to Upper Palaeolithic · Mousterian / Gravettian

Large limestone rock shelter in the Louros River valley, Epirus, excavated by Higgs (1964) revealing Mousterian to Upper Palaeolithic layers spanning 100,000–26,000 years BP.