Cave of El Castillo Hands and Bison 2 Metal Print

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Cave of El Castillo Hands and Bison. DIgital oil painting.

Stenciled Hands and Bison from Cave of El Castillo, Cantabria, Spain. Digital oil painting.

Detail of three negative hands, and a peculiarly bearded bison painted in yellow ocher.

The Cueva de El Castillo (cave of the Castle) is part of the Caves of Monte Castillo archaeological site in the province of Cantabria, Spain. It contains the oldest known cave art in Europe. Some researchers even argue it might be a product of the Neanderthal. Hand stencils, claviforms and disks painted by blowing paint onto the wall date back at least 40,800 years, making them older than those in Chauvet, dated to around 39,000 years BP.

The paintings in el Castillo range from these early times to 5000 ybp. Around 35,000 years of human presence and cultural manifestations. A treasure like few in the world spanning from the lower paleolithic to the bronze age.

Among the many paintings depicting the surround...

Hi there, Born in '72 and shooting pictures since '83, I have concentrated my efforts in Cave Art and Ancient Civilizations. I also enjoy creating panoramic compositions... But not just... Here you will find landmarks, landscapes and cityscapes, ancient ruins and modern buildings, moons and seas, planes and boats, guns and flowers, animals and machines, forests and deserts, vanguard and prehistory, digital and film, color and black & white, graves and newborns, temples, trenches, palaces, castles, tanks, churches, bunkers... However, they have some things in common: they are meaningful images and they are for the most part unique. W. W.