Conservation of paleolithic cave art in the Capova cave
Yuri Lyakhnitsky · Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences · 2018
The Kapova Cave (Shulgan Tash) is located in Bashkortostan, the Southern Urals, in the Shulgan Tash Reserve.This is the only cave in Eastern Europe, where Paleolithic drawings of about 19,000 years old are preserved.To date, about 200 images are known in the cave including realistic zoomorphic drawings, abstract geometric figures and ochre spots.The paper is devoted to the conservation of ancient drawings and their peculiar features.The cave art resembles West European analogues, but it has specific features.This suggests the existence of a kind of a center of ancient culture in the Southern Urals in the Paleolithic.