Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola y Pedrueca (1831-1888)

Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola y Pedrueca

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2 Jun 1831

Santander, Provincia de Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain

Death

30 Mar 1888 (aged 56)

Santander, Provincia de Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain

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Puente de San Miguel

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Don Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola was a Spanish jurist and amateur archaeologist who owned the land where the Altamira cave was found.The Cave of Altamira located near the historic town Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, is renowned for its numerous parietal cave paintings featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands, created during the Upper Paleolithic. The earliest paintings in the cave were executed around 36,000 years ago

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María Justina Sanz de Sautuola y Escalante

1871–1946

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