Risco de las Zorreras

The paintings include human figures, geometric marks, and animal representations rendered in reddish pigments on the rock. Some of these quadrupeds may depict domestic animals, but others could represent large wild herbivores that shared the landscape with those early human communities. It is not possible to identify every figure with certainty, yet their presence reveals the importance animals held in how people understood and represented the world. Standing before these paintings, our story seems to stretch back into a remote past, when humans and large herbivores inhabited a possibly more open mountain landscape and shared an everyday relationship long before the hillforts, shepherds’ dwellings, and paths of today.

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