Cave Cueva Pintada
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
On the isle of Gran Canaria has been made one of the most important arqueological discoveries about the aborigins called los Guanches.
Cueva Pintada (painted cave) is a real jewel, which is telling us a lot about the natives called Los Guanches.
The cave has been discovered in 1862, when the discovery not has been seen as important. The real discovery has found place in 1873 by a farmer named Jose RAmos Orihuela. When he was working on the area he noticed a little hole in the earth, which has been the entrance to the cave. When he first entered the cave he saw a huge variety of wall paintings in different colours. Some of the paintings show geometrical figures. Because of the paintings the cave got it's name.
After the discovery there have been made scientific investigations and excavations. Unfortunately only few of the found objects ...