A new study of the Palaeolithic engravings at El Pendo (Cantabria, Spain). Thoughts on birds in Palaeolithic art in the Iberian Peninsula

• Published in: Trabajos de Prehistoria
• Main Authors: Jiménez Guijarro, Jesús, Sánchez Marco, Antonio, García Díez, Marcos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2011
• Subjects: Rock art; Iberian Peninsula; Birds fauna; Pleistocene; Arte rupestre; Península Ibérica; Avifauna; Pleistoceno; Cueva; Razorbill
• Online Access: https://tp.revistas.csic.es/index.php/tp/article/view/355; https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2011.11063

Birds are very scarce in Palaeolithic rock art. Since 1907 figures of razorbill and raptors (probably vulture) have been described at the end of the Pendo cave, both attributed to an Upper Palaeolithic origin (from Aurignacian to Lower Magdalenian, depending on the authors). The new revision of the...