Cova Gran de Santa Linya is a cave a few miles away from Barcelona. The archeologists from the University of Barcelona have recently discovered the remains of a woman dubbed, Linya, a reference to the cave.
The team made another discovery at the same site, an engraving that is 14,000 years old according to carbon dating. Researchers believe that the engraving helps them to understand more about the lives of the first settlers of Spain.
It becomes interesting when the statement made by Jorge Martínez-Moreno, a researcher who helped found the engraving reveals the possibility of a technically skilled artisan as the author of the engraving.
Jorge Martínez-Moreno says, “There are elements and visual resources with which to narrate stories or specify spaces that denote that the person or persons who executed them were intelligent and technically skilled and that combining few lines were capable of generating visualizations with a high empathic content that we have been able to decode thousands of years later.”
With the help of a 3D scan, we can see the figure resembles a Pyrenean ibex, locally known as a bucardo.
