Page 17 - ART AND NATURE IN PREHISTORY. THE COLLECTION OF TRACINGS OF CAVE ART OF THE MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES

sitesaraña caves e group of small Araña caves located in Bicorp was discovered in 1920. Rock art in this place is extremely well documented, both because of the presence of well-preserved large scenes and because of the thorough photographic record of the eld works carried out in the caves. is place was the subject of a monograph describing all the paintings and whose publication exposed the work of the artists, explained by Pacheco as follows:“Work started rst time in the morning, at dawn, and was interrupted at eight for breakfast and again at eleven, when the sun bathed the scarp and the small caves, preventing the work from taking place; operations were resumed in the afternoon around ve, until dusk.”“Photographic information was taken during the hours when light was more convenient. In general, photographs of the gures were taken with variable exposure of between half a second to two seconds and with the diaphragm slightly open, the main di culty being the poorly photogenic rocky bottom, with its yellowish and reddish tones and little photographic contrast with the fading red of the gures...”“In the main small illustrated cave, a small and deep cavity or hole is included in the composition, which depicts two men harvesting honey by climbing a rope ladder, the hole in the rock being the place where the swarm lives.”art and nature in prehistory. the collection of rock art tracings of the mncn017