At any time, in Any place in the world a simple finding can change the story as we know it. Well, this has happened to a group of archaeologists while exploring a cave, finding prehistoric structures and traces of an ancient civilization. Everything has happened In La Cueva Dones, in Millares (Valencia).
This is what archaeologists have found in the cave
A group of archaeologists has reached the conclusion that humans Prehistoric intentionally modified the stalagmites of the Cova Dones cave, in Valencia, forming more than 100 structures, known as thickness.
This finding becomes One of the most significant prehistoric underground discoveries on the entire planetonly surpassed by the Saint-Marcel cave in France, as researchers from the universities of Alicante and Zaragoza have.
Cave gifts
A unique finding in underground archeology
The researchers concluded that these structures were formed by the fracture, displacement and regrouping of stalagmitessomething that indicates a transformation intentionally of the underground environment by the prehistoric communities that inhabited the place. HE He does not know if everything was for a ritual or for some kind of planning of the interior of the cave.
The detection of these Thickofacts has been thanks to the analysis of a calcium regeneration in their fracturesthus confirming the prehistoric origin. The experts They continue the course of the studies to know more accurately the time in which they were built These structures to understand their function and chronology.
In 2023, there was already a study of this cave published by the Magazine Antiquitypointing out that there were more than 100 paintings and rock engravings over 22,000 years old, What they do of the Cova Done caves One of the most important Paleolithic art deposits on the Eastern Mediterranean coast from all over Spain.
