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#magdalenian

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🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art

Altamira Cave

Solutrean–Magdalenian ~18–14 ka BP · Solutrean/Magdalenian Cantabrian

Great Ceiling of polychrome bison — the Paleolithic Sistine Chapel at Santillana del Mar.

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🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Lascaux Cave

Upper Paleolithic (Solutrean/Magdalenian, ~17,000–15,000 BCE) · Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherer (Magdalenian)

Sealed Upper Paleolithic cave on the Vézère renowned as the 'Sistine Chapel of Prehistory' for about 600 parietal paintings and nearly 1,500 engravings executed with astonishing naturalism.

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🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Les Combarelles Cave

Mid–Late Magdalenian ~14–12 ka BP · Magdalenian

Dense 600-figure engraved gallery opposite Font-de-Gaume, core Magdalenian engraving reference.

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🇪🇸 Spain · Cave

Cueva de Tito Bustillo

Upper Palaeolithic (Magdalenian) · Magdalenian

Major Magdalenian cave on the Sella River with 12 galleries of polychrome paintings (c. 22,000–10,000 BP), including horses, reindeer and famous anthropomorph, plus habitation deposits.