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What do you know about cave paintings of Altamira?

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Altamira is a cave site in Spain. The paintings on the ceiling of the caves were first brought into notice of an amateur archaeologist Marcelino sanz se Sautuaola and his daughter Maria in November 1879. Maria suddenly noticed the paintings on ceilings when his father was busy in digging the floor of the cave. She brought these pantings to the notice of his father. At first looking of the picture of oxen, he just laughed, but soon realised that some sort of paste rather than the paint has been used for painting. Two decades later, his findings were dismissed by European archaeologists on the ground that they did not appear too good to be very old.
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