page_title: Prehistory of the Valencian Community
section_title: Art of the Upper Paleolithic
hierarchical_section_title: Prehistory of the Valencian Community / Paleolithic / Upper Paleolithic / Art of the Upper Paleolithic
caption_attribution_description: Español: Baston perforado del nivel magdaleniense superior de la Cueva del Castillo (Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, España). Ha sido adornada con el grabado de un ciervo English: Perforated branch of deer stag with deer representation of the Upper Magdalenian level of the Cave del Castillo (Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain).
context_page_description: The prehistory in the Valencian Community refers to the period from the Paleolithic, including the appearance of the first populations, until the appearance of colonizing peoples, in the territory of the Valencian Community.
  Around 350,000 BCE, evidence of the first settlers of the current region known as the Valencian community was left in Cueva de Bolomor. About 50,000 BCE, the Neanderthals occupied the region, leading a completely nomadic existence. The Cova Negra represents this period well. Around 30,000 BCE, the Neanderthals became extinct, replaced by the anatomically modern man; and Levant was the last region populated by the dying species. This change brought an improvement in the economy and technology, and art appeared. In the Valencia region, the most common Paleolithic art was portable art, the Cueva de Parpalló providing the best examples.
  The Valencian region was one of the first to witness the agricultural revolution at the dawn of the Neolithic. Ceramics appeared, like the Cardium pottery in the Mediterranean, and large settlements, like the Cova de l'Or and the Mas d'ls, were populated.
context_section_description: Paleolithic art developed in the Levant. In the Upper Paleolithic, the best-known and most comprehensive assortment of art are the cave paintings of the Iberian Peninsula. In the Valencian Community, various caves contain this type of paleolithic art, including the Cova Fosca, Cova de Reinós, Abric d'En Melia, and the Parpalló and Meravelles caves.
  However, the predominate paleolithic art form in Valencia is portable art, that is, artistic objects that may be transported. Parpalló is exemplary of this type of art, holding a large number of decorated platelets bearing images of darts, awls, and harpoons.
  The development of art is associated with the growth in the complexity and size of a society, symbolizing shared identity as well as individuality.
caption: Engraved deer antler with a hole.
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