Sign at the entrance to the caves of Nerja in Spain.
Sign at the entrance to the caves of Nerja in Spain.
Plan of the cave of Nerja, Spain.
Archaeological zone situated approximately 100 meters past the entrance of the cave of Nerja, Spain.
View of the big room in the Archaeological Zone of the cave of Nerja, Spain.
Faint petroglyphs that I recognized on the cave wall in the Archaeological Zone of the cave of Nerja, Spain.
Copy of a photograph in the Nerja Museum of petorglyphs inside the cave of Nerja, Spain.
Faint red ochre pictographs on a flowstone formation in the cave of Nerja, Spain.
Plexiglass shield to protect the red ochre pictographs on a flowstone formation in the cave of Nerja, Spain.
Replica in the Nerja Museum of a pictograph on a cave formation in the cave of Nerja, Spain. Scale is 10 cm.
Replica of the fish pictographs in the Nerja Museum.
Copy of a museum photograph showing a red ochre pictorgraph of a deer found in the wall in the cave of Nerja in Spain.
Small stone with incised decoration of a wild goose in flight found in the cave of Nerja, Spain.
Closeup of the image of a wild goose in flight found in the cave of Nerja, Spain.
Mortar and grining stone for pulverizing red ochre found in the cave of Nerja, Spain.
Raw piece of red ochre and two pottery bowls (Neolithic/Chalcolithic periods) found in the cave of Nerja, Spain.
Pottery sherd with incised designs.
Copy of a photograph in the museum of stone tools, debitage and split animal bone fragments on the floor of the cave of Nerja in Spain.
Copy of a photograph in the museum of a projectile point found on the floor of the cave of Nerja in Spain.
Projectile point found in the cave of Nerja in Spain. The museum caption identified this artifact as manufactured during the Gravettian Period (approximately 31,000 BC).
Stone tools found in the cave of Nerja in Spain. The museum caption identififes these tools as associated with thte Solutrean lithic industry (20,000 to 15,000 BC) and discovered in the "Mine Room."
Human burial found inside of the Cave of Nerja in Spain. The museum caption identifies the burials as "Pepita" that was discovered in 1982 in the "Hall of the Sink." Osteological analysis indicates that she was approximately 19 years old at time of death and had a stature of 150 cm = 4'11". C-14 dating indicates that the burial dates to 7900 BC - the Epipaleolithic. The Osteologica l analysis indicates that she was left handed. Isotopic analysis indicates that her diet was mainly meat and harvested plant food with only a low percentage of seafood consumption.
Museum display showing the flexed burial of "Pepita" during excavation.
Copy of a photograph in the Nerja museum showing the excavation inside of the cave of Nerja in Spain.
Copy of a photograph in the Nerja museum showing the excavation inside of the cave of Nerja in Spain.
Copy of the musuem photograph showing the stratigraphic sequence and dates in the cave of Nerja in Spain.