Definitions for "Altamira"
On a summer's day in 1879, an amateur anthropologist and his eight-year old daughter were exploring the area around Santillana del Mar, when they came across an opening to a cave. It had been exposed a few years previously by a landslide provoked by heavy rains. A hunter had chanced upon it the year before, but finding no bears or wolves, he continued on his way. Intrigued, father and daughter lit their charcoal lamps and climbed in through the entrance. As the anthropologist scoured the floor for bones and arrowheads his daughter looked up to the cave's ceiling and exclaimed, "Look Dad, they're cows! ( Mira, Papá, son bueyes )" . What they saw now forms part of Spanish and World culture. The Altamira site is one of the ... Read
Cave near the north coast of Spain discovered in 1868. The first site where Paleolithic Period cave paintings were found.
Altamira (Spanish for 'high view') is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands. It is located at , near the town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, 30 km west of the city of Santander. The cave with its paintings has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Altamira is a Venezuelan neighborhood located in the Chacao municipality of Caracas.