In the junction between the “Barranco de la Choca” and the river Vero we find numerous beautiful caves and rock shelters decorated with cave paintings. There are Palaeolithic paintings in the “Cueva del Trucho” and schematic paintings from the Neolithic in other caves and rock shelters, as in Mallata I and II or a deer in the Arpán cave.
They are located on top of an impressive rock stack.
This place, plentiful in water and propitious for the hunting, was of great importance for the inhabitants of these caves, several millenniums ago, since they found shelter there. In this place we found the largest concentration of decorated rock shelters of the region.
The scenery that we can enjoy today is almost as returning to the past, in this great prehistoric sanctuary. Unfortunately many other remains of the man presence here are lost; those marks would have been of great importance in order to answer many questions about the ancient and prehistoric rock shelters and caves.
It is thought that the ancient inhabitants, to access to the “covachos”, used stairs, ropes and rudimentary harnesses. There could be also objects of symbolic or ornamental character and, in addition to the rock paintings, there would be other objects painted on leather, wood or fabrics that have not survived.
Only the rock art painted with mineral pigments has gone so far and survived to the man actions and to the passage of the millenniums that separate us from his authors, and have allowed us to know the codes, symbols and meanings of the magical prehistoric world, the art from the first Sobrarbe settlers.
Also we can find other numerous rock shelters and caves in Bárcabo, Betorz, etc., and in other villages and natural sceneries of the “Sierra de Guara”.
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