{"id":3857,"date":"2025-01-22T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/molinodesimon.es\/la-pileta-cave\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T20:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:14:05","slug":"la-pileta-cave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/molinodesimon.es\/en\/la-pileta-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"La Pileta Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;off|desktop&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.29.3&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0.75)&#8221; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0.2)&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction=&#8221;90deg&#8221; background_color_gradient_overlays_image=&#8221;on&#8221; background_enable_image=&#8221;off&#8221; background_video_mp4=&#8221;https:\/\/molinodesimon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/zua-de-agua.mp4&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;10%||10%|&#8221; 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He found the first cave paintings after several visits to the interior and the <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">called <strong>Cueva de los signreros (Cave of the Signs), which became Cueva de la Pileta in 1907<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It was studied by prehistorians, paleontologists and archaeologists such as <strong>Henri Breuil and Hugo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Obermaier<\/strong> attracted by the publication of<strong> &#8221; Letters from Wilder Spain a mysterious Cave &#8220;<\/strong> in<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">1911 in the British magazine The Saturday Review by retired Colonel <strong>Willoughby Verner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">( Military resident in Algeciras who, after learning of the finding, visited and studied it in 1909, 1010 and<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">1911 )<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The <strong>Cueva de la Pileta<\/strong> is a very representative ensemble of the expansion of Palaeolithic Art<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">in the Franco-Cantabrian style in the form of paintings and engravings of animals such as horses, fish,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">goats, bulls, bison, seals; indeterminate figures; and abstract signs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Neolithic ceramics and schematic figures from the Eneolithic were also found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>In 1924 it was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest<\/strong>. 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