What is Cave of Altamira?
{{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site | image = 9 Bisonte Magdaleniense polícromo.jpg | image_upright = 1.2 | caption = | location = [[Santillana del Mar]], [[Cantabria]], [[Spain]] | part_of = [[Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain]] | criteria = {{UNESCO WHS type|(iii), (i)}}(iii), (i) | ID = 310-001 | coordinates = {{coord|43|22|57|N|4|7|13|W|format=dms|region:ES_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | year = 1985 | extension = 2008 | buffer_zone = {{convert|16|ha|sqmi|abbr=on}} | locmapin = Spain Cantabria#Spain | map_caption = Location in Cantabria, Spain }} '''Altamira''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]] for 'high view') is a [[cave]] in [[Spain]] famous for its [[Paleolithic|Upper Paleolithic]] [[cave painting]]s featuring drawings and coloured paintings of wild [[mammal]]s and [[human]] hands. It is located near the town of ''Santillana del Mar'' in [[Cantabria]], [[Spain]], 30&nbsp;km west of the city of ''Santander''. The cave with its paintings has been declared a [[World Heritage Site]] by [[UNESCO]]. The cave is approximately 300 meters long<ref name=oxford_art>{{cite book|title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art|url=https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary0000unse_m7y2|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=[Oxford]|isbn=0-19-860476-9|edition=3rd|editor=Ian Chilvers|accessdate=31 December 2012|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary0000unse_m7y2/page/18 18]|chapter=Altamira}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Further reading == * Curtis, Gregory. 2006. ''The Cave Painters: probing the mysteries of the world's first artists''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. {{ISBN|1-4000-4348-4}} * Guthrie, R. Dale. 2006. ''The nature of prehistoric art''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|0-226-31126-0}} * McNeill, William&nbsp;H. [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19435 Secrets of the Cave Paintings], [http://www.nybooks.com/ ''The New York Review of Books''], Vol.&nbsp;53, #&nbsp;16, Octob