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Hello friends! Today is #Fridaypaleoart, and we are going to travel to the southern Europe to visit the Moro cave in Cádiz! 
Cave: #Moro
Place: Tarifa, Cádiz, #Andalousia, Spain
Motif: Horse
Chronology: #Solutrean
Cave: #Moro
Place: Tarifa, Cádiz, #Andalousia, Spain
Motif: Horse
Chronology: #Solutrean
The cave, which is really a large shelter, is located within the "Estrecho" natural park, near Bolonia beach. From the entrance there are impressive views of the Strait of Gibraltar and the African coasts, but it is necessary to climb a 40m vertical wall to reach it (!).
The shelter, which consists of two superimposed floors, contains red rock art (punctuation and lines) and two panels of engraved figurative motifs.
The painted motifs were discovered by Lothar Bergmann in 1994 on the upper floor, however the engravings were found a year later, in 1995, with the discovery of a big horse on the lower floor. 
The engraved motifs have been studied and published by M. Mas Cornellà, S. Ripoll, L. Bergmann, among others. For the most curious, in the following link we leave one of the first publications of the site: 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307740165_Estudio_preliminar_de_los_grabados_rupestres_de_la_Cueva_del_Moro_Tarifa_Cadiz_y_el_arte_paleolitico_del_Campo_de_Gibraltar
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307740165_Estudio_preliminar_de_los_grabados_rupestres_de_la_Cueva_del_Moro_Tarifa_Cadiz_y_el_arte_paleolitico_del_Campo_de_Gibraltar
Although the group of graphic manifestations of the shelter is of a great interest, we will focus on the fauna set, which is represented by 7 engraved horses, where 4 are horses protomes.
The engraving technique used in the figurative representations of the shelter is deep, elaborate and very refined, which helps to provide a continuous line without interruptions.
The main figure of the group is an almost complete engraved horse of great dimensions, with a small head compared to the rest of the figure, a “bec du canard” snout and a very pronounced belly line. 
Characteristics that remind us of the representations of other Andalusian caves with Paleolithic rock art, such as the bulging-bellied horse in the Cueva de la Pileta (Benaoján, Málaga). #ParecidosRazonables #ReasonableSimilarities
This parallel suggests a #Solutrean chronology, and a possible territorial link due to the proximity of the Cueva del Moro with the caves of Malaga. 
This discovery revealed for the first time the presence of Paleolithic art in the open air in Andalusia, and led to the review of other caves with rock art considered post-Paleolithic.
M.D. Mesa-Algar ( @LoliMalg)
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M.D. Mesa-Algar ( @LoliMalg)
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