Les Pedroses cave (El Carmen, Ribadesella, Asturias). Recovery of some unpublished manuscripts

Abstract

The Palaeolithic rock art of Les Pedroses cave (Ribadesella, Asturias, North of Spain) was discovered by Francisco Jordá Cerdá in 1956, who always had the intention of publishing them, the last one with his collaborator and friend Manuel Mallo Viesca. In this paper we present the manuscript written by both experts preceded of a small historiographic synthesis that gathers the vicissitudes passed by the publication of Les Pedroses cave. This Magdalenian cave-sanctuary is characterized by the presence of an interesting set of engravings and paintings that represents acephalous animals. Francisco Jordá Cerdá interprets the artistic panel from the point of view of the prehistoric religiosity and Manuel Mallo Viesca realizes an aesthetic interpretation of the same site.