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the oldest blazons of the hispanic peopleother classical sitesNumerous classical sites with rock art deserve special mention as they correspond to caves or coves well known for either their antiquity or their artistic value.For instance, the El Castillo Cave in Puente viesgo, Cantabria, where the artists copied the detail of a wild boar herein exhibited. e artists of the Commission did partial reproductions of some of the scenes found in the places they visited, sometimes to try the ink and paper, other times as part of an assignment that was to be exhibited, or just for the pleasure of it. Another well known cave is the Tormón one, in Teruel, where the artists copied an entire mural depicting exclusively goats, with no presence of humans or other signs. At the big cove of Minateda, in the municipality of Hellín, Albacete, the Commission copied une of the hunting scenes. As important as the latter cove, is one of the scenes of the Cavals Cave at Valltorta, Castellón, an area rich in levantine art. Honey harvest images are some of the peculiar and classical scenes depicted in Bicorp, Valencia. And lastly, Pileta or Reina Mora Cave, at the Serranía de Ronda, in Málaga, is also worth highlighting, as it is one of the privately-owned Paleolithic scenes discovered in 1905 in the South of the Iberian Peninsula. is isn‘t but a small token of the splendid collection of prehistoric art works preserved at the MNCN.art and nature in prehistory. the collection of rock art tracings of the mncn015