Its archaeological site, located in the vestibule, contains evidence of human presence spanning the last 150,000 years, which allowed German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier to establish the cultural sequence of the four main periods into which Prehistory is divided. Stratum 18c is internationally renowned for containing archaeological evidence of a possible coexistence between the last Neanderthals [...]
Las Chimeneas Cave was discovered in 1953 by a team of road workers from the Regional Council (Diputación Regional) who, under the direction of A. García Lorenzo, were building the access road to El Castillo and La Pasiega caves. The discovery was published in 1956 by J. González Echegaray. In the original vestibule, a few [...]
Twelve thousand years ago, the last hunter-gatherers who inhabited the Cantabrian Cornice used charcoal to sketch inside a small chamber. They depicted the final cold-climate animals to live in this region before their extinction, such as reindeer and a bison, alongside ibexes and horses. As they journey through the interior, visitors will be amazed by [...]
Between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago, groups of hunter-gatherers frequented the upper basin of the Miera River. Typically during the summer, the Paleolithic inhabitants of Cantabria would climb up to the rugged massifs of Miera to hunt Iberian ibex. The Miera River and its tributaries offered an abundance of salmon and trout. The fruit of [...]
The cave originally had up to six small entrances, two of which are preserved today: one provides access to Galleries A, B, and D, while the other leads to Gallery C. The rest were sealed off. Gallery A is linear and roughly 70 meters long, ending in a very narrow side passage. Gallery B [...]
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