La Cueva de Baltzola (Dima, Bizkaia): un nuevo conjunto de arte parietal paleolítico en un yacimiento clásico

Abstract

This work presents the discovery and subsequent study of red marks of Paleolithic style in the cave of Baltzola (Dima, Bizkaia).The authors identify a small set of decorations that include an ideomorph that is difficult to characterize. It may be either “Cantabrian claviform” (present in caves such as Altamira, Tebellin or La Pasiega B and C) or as a “quadrangular sign with appendix” (identified in caves such as La Pasiega A or El Castillo).The rigid typology hitherto used to classify these ideomorphs does not take into account the existence of diffuse limits between them. The Baltzola marking is in any case a sign hitherto unknown in eastern Cantabria Cornice.The cave of Baltzola can be compared others in the west-central Cantabria whose precise chronological attribution is difficult in the absence of direct dating.