An Ancient Sanctuary Is Discovered in El Juyo Cave, Spain
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Social Science, Archaeology
- Subcategories: Scientists, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, 20th & 21st Century European History, Spanish/Portuguese History
- Geographical Location: Spain
- Date: August, 1979
Article abstract: Freeman and Echegaray excavated the remains of a fourteen-thousand-year-old sanctuary cave in Spain, providing the first material evidence of communal religious rituals.
Summary of Event
Leslie G. Freeman and Joaquin Gonzalez Echegaray have cooperated in a number of excavations in Spain. In 1968 to 1969, their discovery of the thirty-thousand-year-old mold of an Aurignacian burial in Cueva Morin, captured in fuzzy outline by the dripping water and fine sediments of the cave, made archaeological history.
In the 1970’s, Freeman...
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